Antenatal Care Services Utilisation and Prevalence of Anaemia among Pregnant Women in a Municipality of the Upper West Region, Ghana

Conclusion/recommendation: The study suggests that if interventions aimed at reducing the burden of prenatal care are not implemented, the benefits of the ANC associated with early and adequate ANC services may not optimally be achieved. [...]strategies to improve the uptake of antenatal care servic...

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Published in:Health science journal 2023-01, Vol.17 (2), p.1-11
Main Authors: Angko, William, Wulifan, Joseph Kwame, Dordah, Amos Dangbie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anemia
Birth weight
Births
Health care policy
Health services
Maternal & child health
Pregnancy
Prenatal care
Registration
Womens health
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Summary:Conclusion/recommendation: The study suggests that if interventions aimed at reducing the burden of prenatal care are not implemented, the benefits of the ANC associated with early and adequate ANC services may not optimally be achieved. [...]strategies to improve the uptake of antenatal care services particularly for disadvantaged women should be targeted at specific components of maternal health. In response, the Ghana Health Services has initiated a number of programs to improve maternal health service utilization, such as the implementation of the safe motherhood initiatives, focused antenatal care (FANC), the national health insurance scheme with the free maternal healthcare policy, the community-based health planning and service (CHPS) initiative skill upgrade of community health officers (CHOs) into midwives, other lifesaving services [2-5]. [...]for a pregnant woman to have attained adequate antenatal care utilization, she should have initiated her first ANC visit within her first trimester and in addition attended three or more subsequent ANC visits. Elsewhere in the US and other developed countries, guidelines have been developed to provide guidance on adequate initiation of care, number of visits and content of routine care (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2008) [12].For example, Kotelchuck's Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilisation (APNCU) index [13].
ISSN:1791-809X
1791-809X