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Limited Service Availability, Readiness, and Use of Facility-Based Delivery Care in Haiti: A Study Linking Health Facility Data and Population Data

Wenjuan Wang, Michelle Winner and Clara R Burgert-Brucker
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):244-260; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00311
Wenjuan Wang
aThe Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, ICF, Rockville, MD, USA.
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aThe Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, ICF, Rockville, MD, USA.
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Clara R Burgert-Brucker
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    Geographic Distribution of 2012 DHS (Displaced) Clusters and 2013 SPA Facilities Included in the Analysis

    Abbreviations: DHS, Demographic and Health Survey; SPA, Service Provision Assessment.

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    Percent Distribution of Women by Level of Availability of Facilities With Delivery Services Within the Buffer Distance,a Haiti, 2012–2013

    a Low availability=no facility with delivery services within the buffer distance; medium availability=1 facility with delivery services within the buffer; high availability=2 or more facilities with delivery services within the buffer. The buffer distance was 5 km for urban clusters and 10 km for rural clusters.

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    Distribution of Cluster-Level Median Readiness Scores Among Facilities Offering Delivery Services, by Residence, Haiti, 2012–2013

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    Percentage of Women Who Delivered at a Facility by Availability of Facilities With Delivery Services Within the Buffer Distance,a Haiti, 2012–2013

    a Low availability=no facility with delivery services within the buffer distance; medium availability=1 facility with delivery services within the buffer; high availability=2 or more facilities with delivery services within the buffer. The buffer distance was 5 km for urban clusters and 10 km for rural clusters.

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    Percentage of Women Who Delivered at a Facility by Level of Readinessa at Facilities With Delivery Services Within the Buffer Distance,b Haiti, 2012–2013

    a Low-, medium-, and high-level readiness=median readiness score of the facilities within the buffer falling in the bottom 33.3%, middle 33.3%, and top 33.3%, respectively. The buffer distance was 5 km for urban clusters and 10 km for rural clusters.

    b Women living in clusters with no health facility offering delivery services within the buffer distance were excluded from this figure since the readiness score was applied only to clusters with 1 or more health facilities.

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    TABLE 1. Percentage of Facilities Offering Delivery Services With Availability of Basic and Comprehensive Obstetric Care Services and Items, by Residence, Haiti, 2013
    Rural %Other Urban %Metropolitan %Total %
    Basic obstetric care indicators
    Parenteral administration of antibiotics68.978.094.977.9
    Parenteral administration of oxytocic drug86.595.194.991.8
    Parenteral administration of anticonvulsants40.567.148.753.3
    Assisted vaginal deliverya90.592.789.791.3
    Manual removal of placenta58.179.359.067.2
    Manual removal of retained products48.675.664.163.1
    Neonatal resuscitation51.472.053.860.5
    Guidelines for IMPAC21.631.712.824.1
    Staff trained in IMPAC48.653.746.250.3
    Emergency transportaion32.436.635.934.9
    Sterilization equipment75.784.187.281.5
    Examination light43.243.959.046.7
    Delivery pack87.892.787.289.7
    Suction apparatus93.298.879.592.8
    Manual vacuum extractor16.219.520.518.5
    Vacuum aspirator or D&C kit20.335.430.828.7
    Newborn bag and mask51.462.259.057.4
    Delivery bed97.3100.094.997.9
    Partograph32.441.533.336.4
    Gloves93.293.989.792.8
    Antibiotic eye ointment for newborns66.284.166.773.8
    Injectable uterotonic62.274.464.167.7
    Injectable antibiotics89.292.794.991.8
    Injectable magnesium sulphate60.878.074.470.8
    Skin disinfectant60.881.761.569.7
    Intravenous solution with infusion set74.384.182.180.0
    Regular reviews of maternal or newborn deaths25.732.948.733.3
    Comprehensive obstetric care indicators
    Cesarean delivery services23.052.471.845.1
    Blood transfusion23.050.061.542.1
    Guidelines for CEmOC adapted for Haiti6.815.97.710.8
    Staff member providing delivery trained in CEmOC44.645.138.543.6
    Anesthesia equipment10.815.925.615.9
    Incubator10.823.223.118.5
    Blood typing17.642.756.435.9
    Cross matching test4.13.710.35.1
    Blood supply sufficiency12.219.520.516.9
    Blood supply safety16.237.853.832.8
    Total number of facilities748239195
    • Abbreviations: CEmOC, comprehensive emergency obstetric care; D&C, dilation and curettage; IMPAC, integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth.

    • ↵a Assisted vaginal delivery was actually interpreted as "attended vaginal delivery" in the Haiti Service Provision Assessment.

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    TABLE 2. Multivariable Model Results for the Regressions of Facility Delivery on Availability of Facilities With Delivery Services Within the Buffer, Controlling for Other Variables, Haiti, 2012–2013
    VariablesRuralOther Urban
    Odds Ratio95% CIOdds Ratio95% CI
    Availability of facilities with delivery services
    Low availability1.001.00
    Medium availability1.89*1.14, 3.133.83**1.57, 9.31
    High availability3.56***2.23, 5.662.64*1.13, 6.19
    Mother's age at birth1.06***1.03, 1.081.08***1.04, 1.13
    Birth order
    11.001.00
    2–30.30***0.23, 0.390.30***0.19, 0.48
    4–50.15***0.10, 0.220.23***0.12, 0.46
    6+0.10***0.06, 0.170.14***0.05, 0.37
    Education
    None1.001.00
    Primary1.370.99, 1.890.950.48, 1.89
    Secondary or higher1.85**1.27, 2.681.640.80, 3.35
    Wealth quintile
    Lowest1.00NAaNAa
    Second1.86***1.38, 2.50NAaNAa
    Middle2.99***2.12, 4.201.00
    Fourth5.72***3.61, 9.071.430.91, 2.25
    Highest10.73***4.83, 23.803.39***1.91, 6.04
    Antenatal care visits
    None1.001.00
    14.46***2.05, 9.691.380.36, 5.29
    2–33.90***2.09, 7.281.400.51, 3.82
    4+6.75***3.71, 12.272.85*1.13, 7.17
    Departement
    Ouest1.001.00
    Sud-est1.170.61, 2.232.960.73, 12.08
    Nord0.920.53, 1.601.830.64, 5.28
    Nord-est1.620.79, 3.321.740.53, 5.78
    Artibonite1.170.76, 1.781.370.49, 3.86
    Centre1.640.97, 2.781.420.39, 5.20
    Sud1.560.94, 2.591.900.52, 6.88
    Grand'anse1.210.57, 2.570.680.17, 2.73
    Nord-ouest1.040.56, 1.930.670.19, 2.39
    Nippes1.350.67, 2.701.710.26, 11.14
    Number of clusters24185
    Observations2,878829
    • ↵a In other urban areas, no women were in the first wealth quintile and very few women were in the second wealth quintile; they were combined into the third quintile.

    • ↵***P<.001; **P<.01; *P<.05.

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    TABLE 3. Multivariable Model Results for the Regressions of Facility Delivery on Service Readiness of Facilities With Delivery Services, Controlling for Availability of Services and Other Variables, Haiti, 2012–2013
    VariablesRuralOther UrbanMetropolitan
    Odds Ratio95% CIOdds Ratio95% CIOdds Ratio95% CI
    Facilities' readiness to provide delivery servicesa
    Low readiness1.001.001.00
    Medium readiness1.430.93, 2.181.740.71, 4.261.020.74, 1.41
    High readiness1.330.95, 1.852.74**1.34, 5.601.410.96, 2.05
    Availability of facilities with delivery servicesb
    Medium availability1.001.00NA
    High availability1.94***1.38, 2.720.720.37, 1.41NA
    Mother's age at birth1.05***1.03, 1.081.09***1.05, 1.141.0230.99, 1.05
    Birth order
    11.001.001.00
    2–30.31***0.23, 0.420.28***0.17, 0.470.61**0.43, 0.88
    4–50.15***0.10, 0.240.22***0.10, 0.480.50*0.29, 0.86
    6+0.12***0.07, 0.200.17**0.06, 0.490.42*0.20, 0.91
    Education
    None1.001.001.00
    Primary1.47*1.04, 2.080.910.42, 1.963.23***1.71, 6.12
    Secondary or higher2.06***1.39, 3.061.910.86, 4.245.01***2.63, 9.55
    Wealth quintilec
    Lowest1.00NAcNAcNAcNAc
    Second1.89***1.37, 2.61NAcNAcNAcNAc
    Middle3.04***2.11, 4.381.001.00
    Fourth5.72***3.56, 9.211.470.87, 2.461.050.68, 1.63
    Highest11.14***4.95, 25.072.82**1.49, 5.352.56***1.55, 4.20
    Antenatal care visits
    None1.001.001.00
    14.75***2.05, 10.992.020.47, 8.733.60*1.25, 10.32
    2–34.17***2.13, 8.172.160.69, 6.762.20*1.12, 4.32
    4+7.24***3.81, 13.793.88*1.36, 11.053.95***2.17, 7.18
    Departement
    Ouest1.001.00
    Sud-est0.980.47, 2.031.000.11, 9.03
    Nord0.890.50, 1.572.000.57, 6.98
    Nord-est1.630.79, 3.392.370.55, 10.15
    Artibonite1.190.75, 1.881.600.46, 5.62
    Centre1.640.92, 2.921.920.46, 7.94
    Sud1.620.95, 2.762.460.48, 12.64
    Grand'anse0.970.40, 2.340.580.12, 2.79
    Nord-ouest1.020.54, 1.920.650.16, 2.68
    Nippes1.360.66, 2.812.670.31, 22.83
    Number of clusters2016959
    Observations2,571802650
    • ↵a Regressions excluded women living in clusters with no health facility offering delivery services within the buffer since the readiness score is applied only to clusters with 1 or more health facilities.

    • ↵b Since the analysis excluded women living in clusters with no health facility offering delivery services within the buffer (i.e., the low availability group), the medium availability group was set as the reference.

    • ↵c In the metropolitan and other urban areas, no women were in the first wealth quintile and very few women were in the second wealth quintile; they were combined into the third quintile.

    • ↵***P<.001; **P<.01; *P<.05.

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    SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 1. Operational Definitions of Service Readiness Indicators

    SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 2. Percentage Distribution of Health Facilities That Provide Normal Delivery Services by Facility Background

    SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 3. Characteristics of Women Who Have Had a Live Birth in the Five Years Preceding the Survey, Haiti DHS 2012

    Files in this Data Supplement:

    • Supplement 1 - Text s01, PDF
    • Supplement 2 - Text s02, PDF
    • Supplement 3 - Text s03, PDF
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