Factors Influencing Utilization of Antenatal Care among Women of Childbearing Age in Zimbabwe

Esther Mphake, nwu

Background: maternal, household and institutional factors influencing women’s use of antenatal care services in Zimbabwe. This result in women dying to causes related to child birth due to inadequate use of maternal health care service, antenatal care service in particular. Objectives: The study investigates maternal, household and institutional factors associated with antenatal care service utilization among women in Zimbabwe with the aim of determining the policies which can be advocated in order to improve reproductive public health challenge still causing increased mortality among women during pregnancy and child birth. Methods: The study used the 2011 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) in order to achieve the study objective. The study population consists of 9171 women who participated in the study, out of which 4397 of them had an ANC visits. The study used univariate, bivariate and logistic regression to estimate the women’s use of ANC in Zimbabwe.