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Spatial patterns and determinants of low utilization of delivery care service and postnatal check-up within 2 months following birth in Ethiopia: Bivariate analysis

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  • Shegaw Mamaru Awoke
  • Frezer Tilahun Getaneh
  • Muluwerk Ayele Derebe

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Background: Home delivery is a nonclinical childbirth practice that takes place in one’s home with or without traditional birth attendants and postnatal care is the care given to the mother and her newborn baby; according to world health organization (WHO), the postnatal phase, begins one hour after birth and lasts six weeks (42 days). This paper aimed to study the spatial pattern and determinant factors of low utilization of delivery care (DC) services and postnatal check-up (PNC) after live births in Ethiopia. Methods: This study used the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data as a source. A total weighted samples of 11023 women-children pairs were included. The bivariate binary logistic regression analyses with spatial effect were modeled using SAS version 9.4 and ArcGIS version 10.8 was used for mapping. Results: The spatial distribution of low utilization of delivery care service and postnatal check-up were significantly clustered in Ethiopia (Moran’s I statistic 0.378, P-value

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  • Shegaw Mamaru Awoke & Frezer Tilahun Getaneh & Muluwerk Ayele Derebe, 2024. "Spatial patterns and determinants of low utilization of delivery care service and postnatal check-up within 2 months following birth in Ethiopia: Bivariate analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(1), pages 1-21, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0297038
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297038
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