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Prenatal care utilization in Zimbabwe: Examining the role of community-level factors

Authors
Marshall Makatea, *, fmmakate@gmail.com, Clifton Makateb, ruumakate@live.com
aDepartment of Economics, State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
bUNEP Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, Tongji University, 903 Zonghe Building, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China
*Corresponding author.
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Marshall Makatefmmakate@gmail.com
Received 2 May 2016, Revised 12 July 2017, Accepted 17 August 2017, Available Online 24 August 2017.
DOI
10.1016/j.jegh.2017.08.005How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Prenatal care utilization; Community-level factors; Rural and urban areas; Multilevel-modelling; Zimbabwe
Abstract

This paper assesses the importance of community-level factors on prenatal care utilization in Zimbabwe. The analysis is performed using data from the two most recent rounds of the nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey for Zimbabwe conducted in 2005/06 and 2010/11 linked with other community-level data. We use logistic, generalized linear regressions as well as multilevel mixed models to examine the factors associated with the frequency, timing and quality of prenatal care. Our results suggest that contraceptive prevalence, religious composition, density of nurses, health expenditures per capita and availability of government hospitals in communities are important predictors of prenatal care use in Zimbabwe. These findings have important implications for public health policy in Zimbabwe – a country with unfavorable maternal and child health outcomes.

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© 2017 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Journal
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue
7 - 4
Pages
255 - 262
Publication Date
2017/08/24
ISSN (Online)
2210-6014
ISSN (Print)
2210-6006
DOI
10.1016/j.jegh.2017.08.005How to use a DOI?
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© 2017 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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