Why not? Understanding the spatial clustering of private facility-based delivery and financial reasons for homebirths in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In Nigeria, the provision of public and private healthcare vary geographically, contributing to variations in one's healthcare surroundings across space. Facility-based delivery (FBD) is also spatially heterogeneous. Levels of FBD and private FBD are significantly lower for women in certain south-eastern and northern regions. The potential influence of childbirth services frequented by the community on individual's barriers to healthcare utilization is under-studied, possibly due to the lack of suitable data. Using individual-level data, we present a novel analytical approach to examine the relationship between women's reasons for homebirth and community-level, health-seeking surroundings. We aim to assess the extent to which cost or finance acts as a barrier for FBD across geog

SUBMITTER: Wong KLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984741 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature