Women Empowerment and Skilled Attendance/Facility Delivery in a Rural Community of Western Kenya

I. Background Maternal mortality is still high worldwide, with 99% of these in developing countries Maternal health care has a major concern in demographic and other health outcomes and which also reflects the status of women in the society and empowerment level and also appalling the basic health care facilities in a particular region. 19 Low social and economic status of girls and women limits their access to education, good nutrition, as well as money to pay for health care and family planning services. In spite of the Government's effort to reach out to pregnant women in all parts of the country to provide all components of maternal health care free or with nominal charges, utilization of maternal health care remains low in the country Utilization of maternal health care depends not only the availability of services but also on different other factors such as distance of health care facility, perception of women and their families regarding the need for care, social restrictions on freedom to movement, the opportunity cost of accessing health care, and the interaction between the client and the provider of formal health care system 10 . As well as the status of women in society shows the utilization of maternal health care facilities. Education of mother is also an important reason that has performing the positive attitude on utilization of maternal health car