7 Maternal Health 7.1 Care During Pregnancy - Measure DHS

There is a negative association between the birth order of the child and the maternal healthindicators. For example, the proportion receiving regular antenatal care decreases from 46 percentamong first births to women to 16 percent among births of order six or higher.Table 7.7 Maternal health indicators bv background characteristicsPercentage of births in the five-year period whose mothers received any antenatal care andregular antenatal care from a trained medical provider and at least one tetanus toxoidvaccination and whose mothers were assisted at delivery by a medical provider anddefivered in a medical facility, Egypt 1998Any Regular Tetanus Assisted by DeliveryBackground antenatal Antenalai toxoid trained medical In medicalCharacteristic care Care in)ections provider facilityAeeunder 20 43.4 26.4 77.9 47.6 31.420-34 48.6 34.7 70.3 56.9 41.435-49 42.3 30.4 56.9 53.2 39.4Birth orderI 60.9 45.6 82.4 69.4 52.82-3 48,6 34.5 72.1 56.6 40.74-5 39.0 25.2 60.7 42.7 29.06 or more 29.3 16. I 54.3 4 [.4 27.3Urban-rural residenceUrbanRural61.038.549.922.367. I71.971.644.861.825.7Place of residenceUrban Governorates 59. I 51.2 62.9 70.6 65. ILower Egypt 48.8 34.6 76.1 62.3 41.6Urban 65.8 54,4 74.4 80.7 68,4Rural 43.7 28.6 76.6 56.8 33.5Upper Egypt 40.5 23.6 67.6 41.8 26.8Urban 60.3 44.0 68.2 65.8 51.0Rural 33.4 16.3 67.4 33,2 18.2EducationNo education 29.4 16.0 64.6 36.3 23,2Some primary 42.7 27.8 70.9 51.3 33.6Primary comp./Some secondary 52.7 35.8 72.8 60.7 45.3Completed secondary/Higher 72.2 58.4 76.2 81.2 63.5Total 47.2 33.1 70.1 55.2 39.7Note: A woman is considered to have had regular antenatal care if she had 4 or more visits lor caredurin~ the pregnancy,,Urban-rural residence andregion are strongly associated withboth antenatal care and assistance.Rural women, especially thoseliving in Upper Egypt are less likelythan urban women to receive careduring pregnancy or assistance atdelivery from trained medicalproviders.Figure 7.2 shows that bothregular antenatal care and medicalassistance a! delivery are morecommon among women living inrural areas in Lower Egypt than inUpper Egypt. With regard to tetanusFigure 7.2Maternity Care Indicators thr Rurad AreasEgypt 199829Regular antenatal carect Lowe r ~z~ypt57IkTrained medical assisLqnoeatII Upl~r E~pt [35