Antenatal care(ANC) or, prenatal care is a type of preventive healthcare that a pregnant woman receives during her pregnancy. Good ANC links the woman and her family with the formal health system, increases the chance of using a skilled attendant at birth and contributes to good health through the life cycle. But only half of women worldwide receive the recommended amount of care during pregnancy. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world and fewer women receive the recommended minimum four antenatal visits during pregnancy. In Uganda, only 47.6% of expectant mothers received the recommended minimum four antenatal visits by a skilled health professional in 2014. Using 2016 DHS data we observe that in Uganda, at 21.2% Kampala has the highest percentage of expectant mothers who have Doctors as antenatal care providers during their pregnancy; the Eastern region is ranked the lowest with only 4.3% antenatal care providers as Doctors. The majority population, anywhere from 76%-93% relies on Nurses/ Midwife as the primary antenatal care providers across the country. Reliance on Auxiliary Nurse, Other Health Worker and Traditional birth Attendants is very low.
9.7%
Antenatal
Care Provider:
Doctor
86.9%
Antenatal
Care Provider:
Nurse/Mildwife
0.8%
Antenatal
Care Provider:
Auxiliary
Nurse/Mildwife
0.5%
Antenatal
Care Provider:
Other
Health Worker
0.5%
Antenatal
Care Provider:
Traditional
Birth Attendant
Antenatal Care Provider: Doctor
Percentage*: %
Rank: out of 10
Antenatal Care Provider:
Percentage*: %
Rank: out of 10
Rank move(vs doctor):
How to Read the Graph: The intersection of regions on the x-axis and numbers ‘ranks’ on the y-axis depict the rank of 10 region’s in Uganda for ‘antenatal care percentage’; as you hover your mouse on these intersection points you can look at the % of antenatal care with specific provider in that region and its current rank. The drop-down box in the legend allows you to compare ranks & percentage of antenatal care provided by 'doctor’ with other four distinct categories – 1) nurse/mildwife, 2) auxiliary nurse/mildwife, 3) other health worker and 4) traditional birth attendant. E.g., For Kampala, 21.2% people receive antenatal care from a doctor and it has a rank of 1 amongst 10 regions but in terms of people receive antenatal care from a nurse/mildwife Kampala has a percentage of 76.8% with a rank of 10 amongst 10.
Note:
Percentage*: Percentage of live births in
the five years preceding the survey whose source of antenatal care
during pregnacy was a [doctor/ nurse or midwife/ auxiliary nurse/
another type of health worker/ traditional birth attendant]
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