The rural-urban divide in Tanzania: Residential context and socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health care utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing studies in Tanzania, based mostly on rural samples, have primarily focused on individual behaviors responsible for the lower utilization of maternal health care. Relatively less attention had been paid to inequalities in structural circumstances that contribute to reduced utilization of maternal health care. More importantly, scholarship concerning the impact of the rural-urban divide on socioeconomic disparities in the utilization of maternal health care is virtually nonexistent in Tanzania.

Methods

Drawing from the Demographic Health Survey (2015-2016) conducted in Tanzania, our study includes a total of 3,595 women aged between 15-49 years old, who had given birth in five years before the month of the interview and living in both rural and urban Tanzan

SUBMITTER: Langa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7652341 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature