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Access to health services amongst reproductive-aged women in post-conflict settings: Evidence from Northern Uganda
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Objective: This study estimates how investments in health infrastructure – improved service availability, accessibility and quality – affect health services utilization amongst reproductive-aged women in Northern Uganda with an emphasis on individual, household, and health supply environment factors (availability of drugs, provider qualifications, and district health support) that facilitate or hinder use.
Methods:Combining data from approximately 6,000 randomly selected households in fifteen districts covered by the USAID-funded Northern Uganda Health Integration to Enhance Services (NU-HITES) project with health facility data from a census of public facilities, multilevel probit models of the utilization of health services will be estimated. Data collection will be completed by March 2014.
Results and Implications: Results from the statistical models will be used to determine which factors most influence the use of health services amongst this population and to better target the interventions of the NU-HITES project. It is expected that the results will show that although individual factors drive health service use, the loss of infrastructure and the exodus of health workers from the conflict make contextual factors equally important. These data support a comprehensive approach to improving access to health care amongst reproductive-aged women in post conflict settings.
Learning Areas:
Provision of health care to the publicPublic health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
List the determinants of demand for health services amongst women of reproductive age in post-conflict settings.
Discuss the importance of both individual and contextual factors in the use of health services amongst women of reproductive age in post-conflict settings.
Keyword(s): Health Care Access, Health Care Delivery
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Principal Investigator for the Monitor & Evaluation component of the northern Uganda Health Integration to Enhance Services project, for which these programmatic data were collected. I have spent 20 years analyzing access to and use of health services using the analytical methods employed in this poster with similar sorts of data sets.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.