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Household Decision-making about Delivery in Health Facilities: Evidence from Tanzania
This study investigated how partners' perceptions of the healthcare
system influence decisions about delivery-location in low-resource
settings. A multistage population-representative sample was used in
Kasulu district, Tanzania, to identify women who had given birth in the
last five years and their partners. Of 826 couples in analysis, 506
(61.3%) of the women delivered in the home. In multivariate analysis,
factors associated with delivery in a health facility were agreement of
partners on the importance of delivering in a health facility and
agreement that skills of doctors are better than those of traditional
birth attendants. When partners disagreed, the opinion of the woman was
more influential in determining delivery-location. Agreement of
partners regarding perceptions about the healthcare system appeared to
be an important driver of decisions about delivery-location. These
findings suggest that both partners should be included in the
decision-making process regarding delivery to raise rates of delivery
at facility