Inequity in uptake of hospital-based childbirth care in rural Tanzania: analysis of the 2015-16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT: Proportions of facility births are increasing throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but obstetric services vary within the health system. In Tanzania, advanced management of childbirth complications (comprehensive emergency obstetric care) is offered in hospitals, while in frontline, primary health care (PHC) facilities (health centres and dispensaries) mostly only routine childbirth care is available. With over half (54%) of rural births in facilities, we hypothesized the presence of socio-economic inequity in hospital-based childbirth uptake in rural Tanzania and explored whether this relationship was modified by parity. This inequity may compound the burden of greater mortality among the poorest women and their babies. Records for 4456 rural women from the 2015-16 Tanzania Demographic and Heal

SUBMITTER: Straneo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature