Factors influencing the utilization of safe motherhood services in Kigoma : a case of Kasulu District
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2014
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University of Dar es Salaam
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Utilization of safe motherhood services is one way in which severe complications and death among women during pregnancy, delivery and after delivery can be served. There have been investments in the public health system in Tanzania with an emphasis on increasing the availability of safe motherhood services and encouraging women to obtain adequate health care during pregnancy and delivery. However this has not fully translated into the utilization of safe motherhood services among women. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the utilization of safe motherhood services among women of reproductive ages (15 to 49years). A total of 216 respondents including 180 women who had delivered five years prior to the research were interviewed and asked questions about safe motherhood services. All respondents interviewed were sampled using multi-stage stratified random sampling. In order to assess the strength of different factors on the utilization of safe motherhood services, this study used multivariate regression to test the dependent and independent factors. Multivariate results confirmed that women’s education, income, birth order, occupation and women’s age had a significant relationship with the utilization antenatal care, delivery assistance, place of delivery and postnatal care. The findings of this study when compared with the findings in the report of the Tanzania Demographic Health Survey, 2010 for Kigoma, Both reveal that there is low utilization of all forms of safe motherhood services, for instance women who received antenatal care were only 43.3% and 38.2% respectively.
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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF HV700.T34K54)
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Maternity health services, Kasulu district, Tanzania, Kigoma region
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Kilamhama, L. C. (2014) Factors influencing the utilization of safe motherhood services in Kigoma : a case of Kasulu district, Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam