Antenatal Care Research Paper

2.2 Reviews of empirical studies Determinant of Antenatal care Utilization As stipulated earlier various studies have been carried out to examine why some pregnant woman makes use of antenatal care service and why others are not. Onasoga et.al (2012) claims that various factors can affect the peoples' usage of antenatal care services; they elaborate on the effect of various factors to be significant determinate f antenatal care service; they are i- Affordability of antenatal car's service, ii- Lack of the knowledge of antenatal care service, iii- Husband acceptance

The following factors will be examined; i- Women educational level ii- Women level of income iii- Women age

2.2.1 Women Education, Qualification and antenatal Care Utilization

Yalem (2010) reported that there is a statistically significant relationship between women educational qualification and utilization of antenatal care service. in addition Babar et al, (2004) also justifies the findings of Yalem(2010) when they reported that women who are illiterate make less use of antenatal care services than their counterparts that are educated. The higher the level of women education qualification, the higher the level of their antenatal care utilization. As stipulated, education is very important in individual life as it help people to understand life and how individuals can make the best decision in a particular situation. Educated women are better that their non-educated counterparts in the society and in making decision relating to

The age at which woman gets pregnant tend to affect their usage of antenatal care services. It has been reported that adolescents are more prone to pregnancy complication than their older woman counterparts. It is noted that teenage pregnancy tends to experience difficulty both during and after pregnancy. The reason behaving, this is the fact that younger pregnant woman have been reported to be vulnerable to various pregnancy problems such as haemorrhage, anaemia and other problems that may arise from pregnancy. This suggests that adolescent with pregnancy make use of antenatal programme than their adult counterpart. Studies have confirmed that age of married women is positively correlated with antenatal care utilization, in other word, other women wen compare to their younger women counterparts tends to engage more in utilization of maternal health service. Yalem(2010) findings also confirm that women who are older tends to make use of maternal health services than their younger age