Associations of government health expenditures, the supply of health care professionals, and country literacy with prenatal care use in ten West African countries. Academic Article

abstract

• Social and health care context may influence prenatal care use. We studied associations of government health expenditures, supply of health care professionals, and country literacy rates with prenatal care use in ten West African countries, controlling for individual factors. We used data from Demographic and Health Surveys (n=58,512) and random effect logistic regression models to estimate the likelihood of having any prenatal care and adequate prenatal care. Each percentage increase in the literacy rate was associated with 4% higher odds of having adequate prenatal care (p=.029). Higher literacy rates among women may help to promote adequate prenatal care.

authors

• Racine, Elizabeth

published proceedings

• Health Care Women Int

altmetric score

• 3.5

author list (cited authors)

• Taylor, Y. J., Laditka, S. B., Laditka, J. N., Brunner Huber, L. R., & Racine, E. F.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Taylor, Yhenneko J||Laditka, Sarah B||Laditka, James N||Brunner Huber, Larissa R||Racine, Elizabeth F

publication date

• March 2017

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Health Care For Women International  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Africa, Western
• Delivery Of Health Care
• Developing Countries
• Female
• Financing, Government
• Health Expenditures
• Health Literacy
• Health Personnel
• Health Surveys
• Health Workforce
• Humans
• Patient Acceptance Of Health Care
• Pregnancy
• Prenatal Care
• Young Adult

PubMed Central ID

• 27797654

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/07399332.2016.1254219

start page

• 207

end page

• 221

volume

• 38

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2016.1254219