Palestinian Family Survey 2010 Final Report - Palestinian Central ...

PCBS: Palestinian Family Survey, 2010Content of antenatal careThe types of services pregnant women received are shown in table RH.8. Among those women who have given birth toa child during the two years preceding the survey, 79 percent reported that a blood sample was taken during antenatalcare visits, 80 percent reported that their blood pressure was checked, about 77 percent that urine specimen wastaken and in 74 percent all three tests were conducted.Table RH.8: Content of antenatal carePercentage of Women 15-49 years who gave birth during the last two years preceding the survey and received medicaltests as part of antenatal care by Region, State of Palestine, 2010Region Blood pressure Urine analysis Blood sample analysis All three testsState of Palestine 80.4 76.6 79.0 74.1West Bank 86.0 80.6 84.1 77.4Gaza Strip 72.8 71.2 72.0 69.6Pregnancy complicationsIn the PFS 2010, women were asked if they were experienced any complications during pregnancy. Around 23 percentstated suffering from severe headache, 23 percent suffered from upper abdominal pain, and 17 percent suffered fromurination pains. Results show that more women in the West bank suffered complications during their pregnancy thanwomen in the Gaza Strip.Table PRH7.: Exposure to health complications during pregnancyPercentage of births (last birth) born during the last two years preceding the survey whose mothers were exposed tohealth complications during pregnancy by type of complication and Region, State of Palestine, 2010Type of complicationRegionWest Bank Gaza Strip State of PalestineAcute vaginal bleeding 5.3 2.8 4.2High blood pressure 9.8 11.0 10.3Swelling of face and body 21.9 11.5 17.5Acute headache 27.4 15.9 22.6Upper abdominal pain 31.9 11.1 23.1Fever 9.7 5.0 7.7Non fever convulsions 3.3 2.3 2.9Urination pain 22.6 9.9 17.2Breathing difficulties 20.6 8.6 15.6Number of women who gave birth in the preceding two years 2594 1877 4471Assistance at DeliveryA World Fit for Children goal is to ensure that women have ready and affordable access to skilled attendance at delivery.The indicators are the proportion of births with a skilled attendant and proportion of institutional deliveries.The skilled attendant at delivery indicator is also used to track progress toward the Millennium Development target ofreducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015.The PFS 2010 included a number of questions to assess the proportion of births attended by a skilled attendant. Askilled attendant includes a doctor, nurse, midwife or auxiliary midwife.Data shows that 99 percent of births in the State of Palestine are delivered by a skilled personnel, also data indicatethat about 17 percent of births occurring in the two years preceding the PFS survey were C-section delivery.91