Emily Smith Greenaway|Juan León|David P. Baker
UNDERSTANDING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL EDUCATION AND USE OF HEALTH SERVICES IN GHANA: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF HEALTH KNOWLEDGE
Pennsylvania State University|Group for the Analysis of Development|Pennsylvania State University
paper examines role health knowledge association mothers education use maternal child health services ghana study uses data nationally representative sample female respondents 2008 ghana demographic health survey ordered probit regression models evaluate whether womens health knowledge helps explain use three specific maternal child health services antenatal care giving birth supervision trained professional complete child vaccination analyses reveal mothers years formal education strongly associated health knowledge health knowledge helps explain association maternal education use health services net set stringent demographic socioeconomic controls mothers health knowledge key factor associated use health services