NDLI: Maternal Health Care Seeking Behavior in a Post-Conflict HIPC: The Case of Rwanda

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Author	Chandrasekhar, S. Gebreselassie, Tesfayi Jayaraman, Anuja
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Rwanda is one of nine post-conflict heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) of the world. There was a worsening of health indicators since the early nineties on account of conflict. In light of this, we examine factors affecting maternal health care seeking behavior in Rwanda using three rounds of Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) data (1992, 2000, and 2005). We find that progress towards increasing the share of assisted deliveries has been slow. There has been no significant increase in the proportion of women seeking antenatal care. This could partially explain why a large proportion of women continue to deliver at home without professional assistance. Further, women who gave birth in the 5 years preceding the 2000 RDHS are less likely to deliver in a health facility than those who gave birth in the 5 years preceding the 1992 RDHS. We do not find such a result for the year 2005. We also find that women are more likely to deliver at home with professional assistance in 2000 and 2005 compared to 1992.
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	41
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01675923
Journal	Population Research and Policy Review
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737829
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-02-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Rwanda Maternal health Place of delivery Conflict Population Economics Sociology Demography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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