Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 - Measure DHS

delivery, residence, wealth and remoteness quintiles, and education are pronounced. Young mothers lessthan 20 years of age, mothers of first births, women who delivered in a health facility, urban women,women in the highest wealth quintile, and highly educated mothers are much more likely to receivepostnatal care within the first 24 hours than their counterparts. Women living in the Central zone, womenliving in the Capital region, and women from the Southern region are more likely to have receivedpostnatal care within the first 24 hours following delivery than mothers living elsewhere. Nearly one infive women also reported that they had received a postpartum dose of vitamin A.Table 4.11 Timing of the first postnatal checkupAmong women age 12-49 giving birth in the five years preceding the survey, the percent distribution of the mother’s first postnatalcheckup for the last live birth by time after delivery, according to background characteristics, Afghanistan 2010BackgroundcharacteristicTime after delivery of mother’s first postnatal checkupLess than 4hours 4-23 hours 2 days 3-41 daysDon’tknow/missingNopostnatalcheckupTotalPercentagewhoreceivedvitamin AdosepostpartumNumber ofwomenMother’s age at birth