Maternal healthcare utilization in rural Bangladesh: A comparative analysis between high and low disaster-prone areas
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Maternal healthcare utilization in rural Bangladesh: A comparative analysis between high and low disaster-prone areas
Abstract
This study examined the disparity in antenatal care (ANC) visits and institutional delivery between high-disaster-prone (HDP) and low-disaster-prone (LDP) areas, defined based on multi-hazards, in Bangladesh and assessed the influencing factors using Andersen's behavioral model. In this study, cross-sectional data of 345 mothers, who had live birth the year preceding the survey, were used from the second-round multipurpose survey of a longitudinal research project conducted in May-June 2011. Hierarchical multinomial logistic and binary logistic models were respectively used to assess the determinants of ANC contacts and choice of childbirth place. We found very low utilization of 4+ ANC visits in both HDP (20%) and LDP (15%) areas. The difference is also not significant. The strong influencing factors of receiving 4+ ANC were mother's education, household size, income, and proximity to health facility. The level of institutional delivery was also low (21%), and no significant difference between HDP (15.2%) and LDP (25.7%) was found. However, in the case of institutional delivery, significant (p-value ≤ .01) difference was found in C-section between HDP (42%) and LDP (79%). A significant (p-value ≤ .05) difference was also found in the attendance of graduate doctors/gynecologists between HDP (58%) and LDP (88%). Mothers of HDP areas were 52 percent less likely to choose institutional delivery compared to those of LDP areas. Moreover, there was 30 percent less likelihood of choosing institutional delivery with an increase in distance to the nearest health facility. Specific demand-side (e.g., awareness raising, expanding maternal voucher scheme, covering more mothers under maternal allowance, and facilitating more income-generating activities especially off-farm ones) and supply-side interventions (e.g., providing training to local traditional birth attendants, and deployment of boat-based medical teams in coastal and char areas) need to be undertaken to increase institutional delivery, especially in HDP areas. However, the ultimate solution depends on adopting long-term measures to prepare facilities ready by filling the vacant posts and reducing absenteeism. Public-private partnerships modality can also be introduced especially in the HDP areas. Policy attention is needed to introduce such interventions.
Copyright: © 2023 Begum, Hamid. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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