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. 2019 Aug 6:6:2333794X19868926.
doi: 10.1177/2333794X19868926. eCollection 2019.

Using Household Socioeconomic Indicators to Predict the Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services Among Reproductive-Aged Women in Rural Yemen

Abdullah Nagi Alosaimi  1 , Bright Nwaru  1   2 , Riitta Luoto  1 , Abdul Wahed Al Serouri  3 , Halima Mouniri  4
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Using Household Socioeconomic Indicators to Predict the Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services Among Reproductive-Aged Women in Rural Yemen

Abdullah Nagi Alosaimi et al. Glob Pediatr Health. .

Abstract

Using principal component analysis (PCA) and integrating both individual and household factors, we had previously derived and proposed 3 socioeconomic indices (namely, wealth index, educational index, and housing quality index) that can be used to classify rural Yemeni women into different socioeconomic statuses (SES). In the current article, we examined whether the PCA-derived indices can be used to predict the use of maternal and child health care services in rural Yemen. We used data from subnational representative multistage sampling cross-sectional household survey conducted in rural Yemen in 2008-2009 among women (N = 6907) who had given birth. The resulting component scores for each SES index were divided into tertiles. Logistic regression was used to study the associations between the SES indices and 4 indicators of maternal health care use. Higher tertiles of each socioeconomic index increased the likelihood of adequate antenatal care use, delivery assistance, and contraceptive use, but decreased the likelihood of unmet need for contraception. Key maternal health indicators can be determined by socioeconomic indicators. Therefore, in planning maternal and child health interventions, considering disparities of care by socioeconomic factors should be taken into account.

Keywords: Yemen; antenatal care; contraceptive usage; equity; maternal health care; socioeconomic factors; unmet need for contraception.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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