Mluleki Tsawe|Amos Moto|Thendo Netshivhera|Lesego Ralesego|Cassandra Nyathi|A Sathiya Susuman
Factors influencing the use of maternal healthcare services and childhood immunization in Swaziland
University of the Western Cape|University of South Africa|North-West University|University of the Witwatersrand|University of the Witwatersrand|University of the Western Cape
maternal child healthcare services important health outcomes mother child ensuring maternal child deaths prevented studying services necessary developing countries infrastructure meant deal health services minimal lacking objective study examine factors influence use maternal healthcare services childhood immunization swaziland study used secondary data swaziland demographic health survey 200607 explorative descriptive study used preselected variables study factors influencing use maternal child healthcare services swaziland ran three different types analyses univariate bivariate multivariate multivariate analysis logistic regression run investigate relationship dependent independent variables study findings showed high use rate antenatal care 973 delivery care 740 low rate postnatal care use 205 uptake childhood immunization also high country averaging 800 certain factors found influencing use maternal healthcare childhood immunization include womans age parity media exposure maternal education wealth quintile residence findings also revealed factors affect use maternal child health services differently important study factors related maternal child health uptake inform relevant stakeholders possible areas improvement programs educate families importance maternal child healthcare services implemented addition interventions focus age differentials use maternal child health services b women higher parities c women rural areas women poor quintile recommend possible future studies could use qualitative approach study issues associated low use postnatal services