{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Jiao B"],"funding":["Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"],"pagination":["e1004421"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11226092"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["21(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Antenatal care (ANC) is essential for ensuring the well-being of pregnant women and their fetuses. This study models the association between achieving adequate ANC and various health and health-seeking indicators across wealth quintiles in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We analyzed data from 638,265 women across 47 LMICs using available Demographic and Health Surveys from 2010 to 2022. Via multilevel logistic regression analyses adjusted for a series of confounding variables and country and wealth quintile fixed effects, we estimated the projected impact of achieving adequate ANC utilization and quality on a series of health and health care indicators: facility birth, postnatal care, childhood immunizations, and childhood stunting a"],"journal":["PLoS medicine"],"pubmed_title":["Association between achieving adequate antenatal care and health-seeking behaviors: A study of Demographic and Health Surveys in 47 low- and middle-income countries."],"pmcid":["PMC11226092"],"funding_grant_id":["INV-037810"],"pubmed_authors":["Jiao B","Sato R","Baral R","Kruk ME","Iversen I","Pecenka C","Arsenault C","Verguet S","Khan S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Association between achieving adequate antenatal care and health-seeking behaviors: A study of Demographic and Health Surveys in 47 low- and middle-income countries.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Antenatal care (ANC) is essential for ensuring the well-being of pregnant women and their fetuses. This study models the association between achieving adequate ANC and various health and health-seeking indicators across wealth quintiles in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We analyzed data from 638,265 women across 47 LMICs using available Demographic and Health Surveys from 2010 to 2022. Via multilevel logistic regression analyses adjusted for a series of confounding variables and country and wealth quintile fixed effects, we estimated the projected impact of achieving adequate ANC utilization and quality on a series of health and health care indicators: facility birth, postnatal care, childhood immunizations, and childhood stunting a","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jul","modification":"2025-04-04T23:53:43Z","creation":"2025-04-04T23:53:43Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11226092","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38968303"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pmed.1004421"]}}