Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda
Plain Language summary Maternal health care (MHC) utilization is one of the Millennium Development Goals (SDG) of pursuit. Globally, most low-income countries like Uganda contribute greatly to pregnancy-related mortalities that are largely preventable through adequate utilization of essential matern...
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| description | Plain Language summary Maternal health care (MHC) utilization is one of the Millennium Development Goals (SDG) of pursuit. Globally, most low-income countries like Uganda contribute greatly to pregnancy-related mortalities that are largely preventable through adequate utilization of essential maternal health care services. Though Uganda over time has registered some increase in maternal utilization, this has been attributed to a number of factors. This study intended to demonstrate whether the introduction of free primary education in Uganda led to increase in the utilization of maternal health services. To address this, we used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS), Probit and Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) models using Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data 2006 and 2011. The study found out that indeed the introduction of free primary education increased the utilization of MHC. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dee9dfe014a747ae8d1b383b64907efe2022-12-22T01:01:00ZengBMCReproductive Health1742-47552022-06-0119111810.1186/s12978-022-01432-8Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from UgandaDavid Amwonya0Nathan Kigosa1James Kizza2Department of Economics and Statistics, Kyambogo UniversityDepartment of Economics and Statistics, Kyambogo UniversityDepartment of Economics and Statistics, Kyambogo UniversityPlain Language summary Maternal health care (MHC) utilization is one of the Millennium Development Goals (SDG) of pursuit. Globally, most low-income countries like Uganda contribute greatly to pregnancy-related mortalities that are largely preventable through adequate utilization of essential maternal health care services. Though Uganda over time has registered some increase in maternal utilization, this has been attributed to a number of factors. This study intended to demonstrate whether the introduction of free primary education in Uganda led to increase in the utilization of maternal health services. To address this, we used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS), Probit and Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) models using Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data 2006 and 2011. The study found out that indeed the introduction of free primary education increased the utilization of MHC.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01432-8RDDOLSFixed effects2SLSMHC |
| spellingShingle | David Amwonya Nathan Kigosa James Kizza Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda Reproductive Health RDD OLS Fixed effects 2SLS MHC |
| title | Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda |
| title_full | Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda |
| title_short | Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda |
| title_sort | female education and maternal health care utilization evidence from uganda |
| topic | RDD OLS Fixed effects 2SLS MHC |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01432-8 |
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