Maternal healthcare and associated factors among married migrant women in Changzhou, China

2021 
China has experienced huge internal migration with rapid economic development since 1980s. Little is known about recent changes in maternal healthcare among married migrant women. In 2018, 373 married migrant women of 20–39 years having a fertility history in the past 5 years were selected in a cross-sectional dataset of the reproductive health survey in Changzhou, China. Bivariate and multivariate associations were examined between demographic characteristics and childbearing history, and maternal healthcare among migrant women. Regarding results, 30% of migrant women reported not getting a handbook of maternal and child health care timely in the first trimester of pregnancy, 20.1% having inadequate prenatal visits, 37% not receiving a postnatal seventh-day home visit, and 16.4% had no 42nd-day examination after delivery. Migrant women who had an earlier birth, who had a second child and who returned hometown in maternal duration were more likely to have inadequate utilization of maternal health services. Substantial migrant women had inadequate maternal healthcare. It is important to take measures to improve their awareness and ability of maternal healthcare, and to improve facility service providing.
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