Association of higher educational attainment on antenatal care utilization among pregnant women in east africa using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from …

TB Raru, GM Ayana, HF Zakaria… - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The use of antenatal care (ANC) plays a major role in minimizing maternal and
child mortality through effective and appropriate screening, preventive, or treatment …

Correlates of antenatal care utilization among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from multinomial analysis of demographic and health …

ST Adedokun, S Yaya - Archives of Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Despite a global reduction of about 38% in maternal mortality rate between
2000 and 2017, sub-Saharan Africa is still experiencing high mortality among women …

Adverse neonatal outcomes of adolescent pregnancy in Northwest Ethiopia

GM Kassa, AO Arowojolu, AA Odukogbe, AW Yalew - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Adolescents have physical, social and psychological characteristics that are
different from adults. Adolescent pregnancy results in pregnancy and childbirth …

Noncompliance with the WHO's Recommended Eight Antenatal Care Visits among Pregnant Women in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis

EK Odusina, BO Ahinkorah, EK Ameyaw… - BioMed Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced a minimum of eight
antenatal care (ANC) visits for positive pregnancy outcomes. This study examined the …

Antenatal and postnatal care

AK Aderoba, K Adu-Bonsaffoh - Obstetrics and Gynecology …, 2022 - obgyn.theclinics.com
Since Archibald Leman Cochrane flagged obstetric care as a discipline that lacked evidence
in many of its practices approximately 4 decades ago, evidence-based obstetric care has …

Number of antenatal care utilization and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: zero-inflated Poisson regression of 2019 intermediate Ethiopian …

M Arefaynie, B Kefale, M Yalew, B Adane, R Dewau… - Reproductive …, 2022 - Springer
Background The frequency of antenatal care utilization enhances the effectiveness of the
maternal health programs to maternal and child health. The aim of the study was to …

Patterns and predictors of insufficient antenatal care utilization in Nigeria over a decade: a pooled data analysis using demographic and health surveys

Z El-Khatib, E Kolawole Odusina, B Ghose… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the patterns of antenatal care (ANC) utilization and insufficient use of
ANC as well as its association with some proximate socio-demographic factors. This was a …

Dimensions of women empowerment on access to antenatal care in Uganda: a further analysis of the Uganda demographic health survey 2016

Q Sserwanja, R Nabbuye… - The International journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Women empowerment has been viewed as a good strategy in the reduction of
global maternal morbidity and mortality. Most of the recent studies in Uganda have focussed …