Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Delivery for Maternity Waiting Home Users and Non-users in Rural Zambia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Utilizing maternity waiting homes (MWHs) is a strategy to improve access to skilled obstetric care in rural Zambia. However, out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses remain a barrier for many women. We assessed delivery-related expenditure for women who used MWHs and those who did not who delivered at a rural health facility.

Methods

During the endline of an impact evaluation for an MWH intervention, household surveys (n = 826) were conducted with women who delivered a baby in the previous 13 months at a rural health facility and lived >10 km from a health facility in seven districts of rural Zambia. We captured the amount women reported spending on delivery. We compared OOP spending between women who used MWHs and those who did not. Amounts were converted from Zambian kwacha

SUBMITTER: Fontanet CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9808339 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature