Fertility intentions and maternal health behaviour during and after pregnancy

Chatterjee, Esha; Sennott, Christie

doi:10.1080/00324728.2019.1672881

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“…Education attainment is positively associated with MHSB, consistent with previous studies (Chandwani & Pandor, 2015; Chatterjee & Sennott, 2020; Dutta & Sengupta, 2018; Navaneetham & Dharmalingam, 2002; Ochieng & Odhiambo, 2019). Women with high educational attainment are assumed to have good abilities to decipher medical instructions for their health (Gopalakrishnan et al, 2019; Kifle et al, 2017; Latunji & Akinyemi, 2018).…”

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Maternal Health-Seeking Behavior and Associated Factors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Xiong

et al. 2021

Health Educ Behav

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Maternal health-seeking behavior (MHSB) is crucial for maternal health. However, little is known about MHSB in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This study aims to evaluate the situation and socioeconomic associates of MHSB in the DRC. Based on the responses of 8,360 participants in a nationally representative survey, we adopted a K-modes cluster analysis algorithm to categorize women into three groups (i.e., infrequent service-users, partial service-users, and full service-users) according to their recent MHSB. Multinomial logistic regression was applied to identify the associated predictors of MHSB. The results show that most women (90.29%) did not receive integral maternal health services, including antenatal care, institutional delivery, and postnatal care. Compared with their counterparts, women who received higher maternal educational attainment, had good HIV-related knowledge, lived in urban regions, and lived in wealthier households were more likely to be partial service-users or full service-users. Women exposed to mass media at least once a week were more likely to be full service-users rather than infrequent service-users. The majority of participants who lived in Kasai and near provinces were infrequent service-users, indicating poor MHSB status in the region. Interventions to promote maternal health knowledge and awareness are highly recommended to improve MHSB in the DRC.

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Maternal Health-Seeking Behavior and Associated Factors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Guo

Xiong

et al. 2021

Health Educ Behav

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“…We evaluate if a woman's most recent birth was wanted or unwanted by comparing the number of children a woman wanted in 2005 to the total number of children that were born between 2005 and 2012. If the total number of additional children a woman wanted in 2005 was greater than or equal to the number of children born between 2005 and 2012 (including those who died within this period), then the most recent birth was labeled as wanted [see also 6,60]. In contrast, if the number of additional children a woman desired in 2005 was less than the number of children born between 2005 and 2012, then the last birth was labeled as unwanted.…”

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“…Recent studies on fertility intentions and maternal and child health in the United States and India have used fixed effects models [10,34,61,62] and propensity score matching [6,9,37] to correct for selection bias. Propensity score analyses are less sensitive to model specification errors compared to regression models [9,[63][64][65][66][67].…”

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Fertility intentions and child health in India: Women’s use of health services, breastfeeding, and official birth documentation following an unwanted birth

Chatterjee

Sennott

2021

PLoS ONE

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This study examines the relationship between women’s prospective fertility intentions and child health, measured via access to healthcare facilities for children and postpartum maternal behaviors that are indicative of future child health. We analyze two waves of nationally representative data (2005 and 2012) from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS). The analytic sample includes 3,442 non-pregnant, currently married women aged 18–40 in 2005 who participated in both rounds of the IHDS, and had at least one birth between 2005 and 2012. We investigate the influence of women’s prospective fertility intentions on access to benefits from the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), indicators of breastfeeding as recommended by the World Health Organization, and official documentation of births via birth certificates or registration. We find that 58 percent of births among women in the sample were labeled as unwanted. We use an adaptation of propensity score matching—the inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) estimator—and show that, after accounting for maternal and household characteristics that are known to be associated with maternal and child health, children who resulted from unwanted births were less likely to obtain any benefits or immunizations from the ICDS, to be breastfed within one hour of birth, and to have an official birth certificate. Results from this study have direct policy significance given the evidence that women’s fertility intentions can have negative implications for child health and wellbeing in the short and longer term.

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“…This potential conflict might cause unfavorable emotional and material conditions for giving birth and raising a child. (iii) Restricted access to abortion might lead to insufficient or delayed prenatal care due to the unwantedness of the pregnancy [ 38 – 41 ]. Second, since cohort size increases after restrictions in abortion rules, a negative crowding effect might emerge [ 29 ].…”

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The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes

Hajdu

2021

PLoS ONE

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We examine the long-term consequences of restricted access to abortion following a change in the Hungarian abortion law in 1974. Due to a change that restricted access to legal abortions, the number of induced abortions decreased from 169,650 to 102,022 between 1973 and 1974, whereas the number of live births increased from 156,224 to 186,288. We analyze the effects on the adult outcomes of the affected cohort of newborns (educational attainment, labor market participation, teen fertility). We use matched large-scale, individual-level administrative datasets of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (population census 2011; live birth register), and we estimate the effects by comparing children born within a short timespan around the time the law change came into effect. We apply a difference-in-differences approach, building on the special rules of the new law that, despite the severe restriction, still made abortion permissible for selected groups of women. We control for the compositional change in the population of parents, rule out the effect of (unobserved) time trends and other potential behavioral responses to the law change, and draw causal inferences. We find that restricted access to abortion had, on average, a negative impact on the socioeconomic outcomes of the affected cohort of children. Children born after the law change have had worse educational outcomes, a greater likelihood of being unemployed at age 37, and a higher probability of being a teen parent.

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Fertility intentions and maternal health behaviour during and after pregnancy

Cited by 12 publications

References 74 publications

Maternal Health-Seeking Behavior and Associated Factors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Maternal Health-Seeking Behavior and Associated Factors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Fertility intentions and child health in India: Women’s use of health services, breastfeeding, and official birth documentation following an unwanted birth

The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes

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