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click hereProject Title: Socio-economic determinants of awareness and visit at community clinic by women: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018
Bangladesh
has made remarkable progress in improving the population's health. However, people
are in a vulnerable situation in terms of health care facilities especially
women and children are most at risk. The purpose of this study is to
investigate the socio-economic determinants of awareness and visit
at community clinic by women in Bangladesh.
This study used population-representative cross-sectional data from the
Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 2017-18. The analyses
were performed on a sample of 18,893 women aged 15-49 years. Descriptive
statistics, bivariate and multivariate analysis was used to check the
significant relationship between awareness and visitation of women at community
clinics, and considered other background characteristics.
The
prevalence of awareness and visitation of community clinic were 60.26% (95% CI:
57.88-62.60), and 15.92% (95% CI: 14.45-17.5), respectively. Factors positively
associated with awareness of community clinic were primary education (aOR = 1.18
[95% CI: 1.04-1.34]), secondary education (aOR = 1.41 [95% CI:1.20-1.66]),
higher education (aOR = 1.48 [95% CI: 1.20-1.83]), working women (aOR = 1.42 [95%
CI:1.24-1.63]), 1-2 children (aOR = 1.39 [95% CI: 1.21-1.59]) and 3 or above
children (aOR = 1.38 [95% CI: 1.17-1.61]); whereas, urban residence (aOR = 0.18
[95% CI: 0.13-0.24]), richer (aOR = 0.75 [95% CI: 0.6-0.94]) and richest (aOR =
0.54 [95% CI: 0.42-0.7]) had negative associated
with awareness of community clinic. Primary education (aOR = 1.43 [95% CI:
1.17-1.74]), secondary education (aOR = 1.59 [95% CI: 1.29-1.96]), higher
education (aOR = 1.6 [95% CI: 1.18-2.18]), sex of household head (aOR = 1.21 [95%
CI: 1.00-1.46]), 1-2 children (aOR = 2.05 [95% CI: 1.56-2.69]), and 3 or above
children (aOR = 2.08 [95% CI: 1.54-2.81]) and media exposure (aOR = 1.22 [95%
CI: 1.05-1.41]) were significantly positively associated with visit at
community clinic; whereas, middle class (aOR = 0.81 [95% CI: 0.66-0.99]), richer
(aOR = 0.67 [95% CI: 0.52-0.88]) and richest (aOR = 0.44 [95% CI: 0.31-0.61])
had negative associated with visitation
of community clinic. The study results reveal that more than half of the women
were aware about community clinic but the community clinic visit rate were
comparatively low. Priority based actions are urgently needed on the selected
factors that increase the awareness and visit at community clinic by women.
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Class / Degree | Masters | ||
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Start Date | 2019 | ||
End Date | 2022 |