Inequity in uptake of hospital-based childbirth care in rural Tanzania: analysis of the 2015–16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey

• Published in: Health policy and planning Vol. 36; no. 9; pp. 1428 - 1440
• Main Authors: Straneo, Manuela, Benova, Lenka, Hanson, Claudia, Fogliati, Piera, Pembe, Andrea B, Smekens, Tom, van den Akker, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Oxford University Press 01.11.2021; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Births; Childbirth & labor; Complications; Delivery, Obstetric; Demographics; Demography; Emergency medical services; Female; First born; Health care; Health care facilities; Health facilities; Health Services Accessibility; Health services utilization; Health surveys; Home births; Home Childbirth; Hospitals; Humans; Inequality; Infants; Maternal Health Services; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Obstetrics; Original; Parity; Polls & surveys; Pregnancy; Primary care; Referrals; Rural areas; Rural communities; Rural Population; Rural poverty; Socioeconomic factors; Tanzania; Uptake; Wealth; Women; Womens health; Tanzania; maternal and child health; health care utilization; health inequalities; health facilities; rural; primary health care; maternal services; poverty; hospital; Obstetrics; equity

Abstract Proportions of facility births are increasing throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but obstetric services vary within the health system. In Tanzania, advanced management of childbirth complications (comprehensive emergency obstetric care) is offered in hospitals, while in frontline, primary healt...