ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The high maternal mortality, home delivery, unwanted pregnancies, incidence of unsafe abortion, and unmeet family planning needs are maternal health gaps attributed to health care access barriers and responsible for the observed health care disparities. Over the last decades remarkable achievements have made in relation to maternal health problems and the reduction of health care access barriers. Thus, this study aimed to assess the decomposition and spatial-temporal analysis of health care access challenges among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia. A logit based multivariate decomposition analysis was employed for identifying factors contributing to the overall decrease in health care access challenges over time. CONCLUSION: Perceived health care access challenges have shown a remarkable decrease over time but there was variation in barriers to health care access across Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News August 18, 2020 21:09 UTC