Intimate partner violence influence on deliveries assisted by skilled health personnel:

SAGE Open Medicine

AmanyRefaat¹ 

关键词: Maternal mortality;    skilled birth attendants;    intimate partner violence;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312113508388

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objective:Millennium Development Goal 5 calls for increasing proportions of deliveries assisted by skilled health personnel to reduce maternal mortality. This study aims to identifying the implication of exposure to intimate partner violence on these proportions.Methodology:This study used domestic violence modules data of Demographic and Health Surveys of six countries from 2005 to 2007. Proportions of assisted deliveries were examined by sociodemographic characteristics and exposure to intimate partner violence in the studied countries. Influence on the proportion was examined against exposure to intimate partner violence through odds ratio and 95% of logistic regression analysis after controlling for women age, residence (urban/rural), household wealth level, economic level of country, educational level and working status of women and their husbands/partners.Results:Data sets of 18,507 participants over 20 years of age showed that almost three-quarters (73%) of women had deliveries assisted by skilled ...

【 授权许可】

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