Time and cost associated with utilization of services at mobile health clinics among pregnant women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antenatal care (ANC) is provided for free in Tanzania in all public health facilities. Yet surveys suggested that long distances to the facilities limit women from accessing these services. Mobile health clinics (MHC) were introduced to address this problem; however, little is known about the client cost and time associated with utilizing ANC at MHC and whether these costs deter women from using the provided services.

Methods

Client-exit interviews were conducted by interviewing 293 pregnant women who visited the MHC in rural Tanzania. Two subgroups were created, one with women who travelled more than 1.5 h to the MHC, and the other with women who travelled within 1.5 h. For each subgroup we estimated the direct cost in US$ and time in hours for utilizing services

SUBMITTER: Neke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6276179 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature