Association between antenatal care visit and preterm birth: a cohort study in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strengthening the antenatal care programme is suggested as one of the public health strategies to reduce preterm birth burden at a population level. However, the evidence so far available is inconclusive.

Objectives

To evaluate the association between antenatal care (ANC) visit and preterm birth; and also to explore to what extent the increased usage of ANC after the initiation of the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) project in Matlab, Bangladesh, contributed to the reduction of preterm birth.

Setting

This population-based cohort study was conducted in Matlab, a subdistrict under Chandpur. The analysis was based on data collected from 2005 to 2009. In 2007, an MNCH project was initiated in the area that strengthened the ongoing ANC services.

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SUBMITTER: Pervin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7380851 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature