Inequities in utilization of maternal health interventions in Namibia: implications for progress towards MDG 5 targets
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal for Equity in Health
- Vol. 9 (1), 16
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-9-16
Abstract
Inequities in the utilization of maternal health services impede progress towards the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015. In Namibia, despite increasing investments in the health sector, the maternal mortality ratio has increased from 271 per 100,000 live births in the period 1991-2000 to 449 per 100,000 live births in 1998-2007. Monitoring equity in the use of maternal health services is important to target scarce resources to those with more need and expedite the progress towards the MDG 5 target. The objective of this study is to measure socio-economic inequalities in access to maternal health services and propose recommendations relevant for policy and planning.Keywords
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