Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilization in four Ethiopian regions; a cross-sectional study

Defar, Atkure; Okwaraji, Yemisrach B.; Tigabu, Zemene; Persson, Lars Åke; Alemu, Kassahun

doi:10.1186/s12939-019-1079-y

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 3 Association between selected socio-geographic and health system factors and the geographical distribution of maternal and child health care utilization in 46 districts of Ethiopia, December 2016–February 2017

From: Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilization in four Ethiopian regions; a cross-sectional study

Explanatory variables^a	Estimate	Standard error	t-value	p value	Vif^b
Antenatal care visits four times or more
Intercept	0.283
Mean age of the women	0.013	0.015	2.157	0.037**	1.652
Mean education level of the women	−0.018	0.024	−0.798	0.429	1.672
The proportion of households with a mobile phone	−0.002	0.000	0.911	0.368	1.606
Proportion of households with a radio	0.000	0.000	1.083	0.285	1.799
Proportion of women’s ownership of households	−0.002	0.004	− 0.544	0.589	1.157
Proportion of women having a family health card	0.003	0.002	1.437	0.159	1.240
Mean parity	−0.111	0.039	−2.882	0.006**	1.724
Health facility delivery
Intercept	−0.195
Mean age of the women	0.01	0.016	0.591	0.558	2.578
Mean number of pregnancies	−0.106	0.162	− 0.652	0.518	1.812
Mean number of antenatal care visits	0.007	0.002	3.013	0.004**	1.721
The proportion of women participating in women’s development groups	0.001	0.002	0.646	0.522	1.167
Proportion of women having a family health card	0.003	0.002	1.484	0.145	1.196
Mean parity	−0.006	0.055	−0.121	0.904	4.207
Full immunization
Intercept	0.309
Mean distance to the health post	−0.001	0.001	− 0.91	0.368	1.406
Family size	−0.05	0.048	−1.05	0.299	1.515
Mean radio availability in the household	−0.17	0.172	−0.987	0.330	1.154
Mean mobile phone availability in the household	0.206	0.109	1.896	0.046**	1.274
Mean elevation	−0.000	0.000	−0.65	0.519	1.273
Mean age of the child (in month)	0.046	0.031	1.498	0.143	1.209
The proportion of male children	−0.195	0.225	−0.867	0.392	1.705
Proportion of household with health post in their kebele	0.179	0.229	0.785	0.437	1.265
Sick child care utilization
Intercept	−0.221
The proportion of household with health post in their kebele	0.007	0.005	1.337	0.189	1.15
The proportion of male children	0.004	0.008	0.530	0.599	1.153
Mean distance to health post (reported)	−0.004	0.004	−1.212	0.232	1.055

** Significance at p-value < 0.05
^aThe estimation was done at district level
^bVariance inflation factor

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