Quality of prenatal-care utilization in Bangladesh: Socioeconomic factors

The delivery of prenatal-care services and its quality reduces mortality and morbidity in mothers and neonates. the current study has attempted to explore the socioeconomic determinants of quality of prenatal-care utilization in bangladesh. micro-data set comprising 22437 observations has been taken from bangladesh demographic health survey (bdhs) 2004 and 2007. ordered logistic regression is applied to estimate the correlation between quality of prenatal-care utilization and explanatory variables. the quality of prenatal-care utilization is measured by simple additive index by taking six components of prenatal-care. the results have revealed that the woman’s current age improves the probability of quality of prenatal-care utilization while age square decreases it. the number of died children and ratio of male to female children of a woman negatively influences the likelihood of quality of prenatal-care utilization. age of the woman at first marriage,education of woman and her partner,household’s wealth status and urban locality of the household and large/ capital city raise the probability of quality of prenatal-care utilization. the results about administrative divisions of bangladesh have revealed statistically insignificant impact on quality of prenatal-care utilization which demonstrates that there exists no disparity among these divisions in the perspective of use of quality prenatal-care services by women. © pakistan academy of sciences.