Table 2 |
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| Women’s utilization of maternal health services by the type of health workers, September 2009 (N=725) | |
| Maternal health services | Frequency (no./%) |
| Family planning: In the past 12 months, who among community health workers visited you and talked to you about family planning? * | |
| Health extension worker | 523(72.1) |
| Community based reproductive health agent | 88(12.1) |
| Community health agent | 276(38.1) |
| Trained and untrained traditional birth attendant | 331(45.7) |
| Not visited | 145(20.0) |
| Antenatal care: Who (community health worker) visited you during your pregnancy of your youngest child?* | |
| Health extension worker | 319(44.0) |
| Community health agent | 98(26.1) |
| Community reproductive health agent | 33(4.6) |
| Untrained or trained traditional birth attendant | 157(41.8) |
| Was not visited or don´t remember | 349(48.1) |
| Delivery Service: Who assisted you with the delivery of your youngest child?* | |
| Health professional | 31(4.3) |
| Trained traditional birth attendant | 147(20.3) |
| Untrained traditional birth attendant | 29(4.0) |
| Relative/friend/neighbor | 586(80.8) |
| Health extension worker | 49(6.8) |
| No one | 1(0.1) |
| Post natal care: If a community health worker visited you immediately after delivery of your youngest child, who was that person?* | |
| Health extension worker | 189(26.1) |
| Community health agent | 67(9.2) |
| Community based reproductive health agent | 13(1.8) |
| Trained and untrained traditional birth attendant | 170(23.4) |
| Was not visited or do not remember | 389(53.7) |
*Multiple responses were possible.
Medhanyie et al. BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:352 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-352
