Table 1.
Evaluation of women’s right indicators for receiving care at the health units in the targeted villages of the selected governorates
| Indicator | El Fayoum Governorate | Benisuef Governorate | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before n = 520 |
After n = 543 |
% Change | Before n = 480 |
After n = 607 |
% Change | Before n = 1000 |
After n = 1150 |
% Change | |
| N (%) | N (%) | % | N (%) | N (%) | % | N (%) | N (%) | % | |
| First: Health Card | |||||||||
| 1. % of surveyed women who know their right to issue a health card once they know they are pregnant | 37 7.4% | 505 93.0% | 85.6%* | 82 16.4% | 565 93.1% | 76.7%* | 119 11.9% | 1070 93.0% | 81.1%* |
| 2.% of surveyed women who know that the health card is obtained from the health unit | 171 35.6% | 440 81.0% | 45.4%* | 127 24.4% | 498 82.0% | 57.6%* | 298 29.8% | 938 81.6% | 51.8%* |
| 3.% of surveyed women who know their right to have their delivery attended by a specialized doctor and in a hospital when experienced prolonged delivery | 126 26.3% | 410 75.5% | 49.2%* | 139 26.7% | 483 79.6% | 52.9%* | 265 26.5% | 893 77.7% | 51.2%* |
| 4.% of surveyed women who actually possess a health card (from a total of 827 women exposed to pregnancy;363 before and 464 after) | 143 39.4% | 308 66.1% | 26.7%* | 229 49.4% | 442 76.6% | 27.2%* | 372 45.0% | 750 71.9% | 26.9%* |
| 5.% of surveyed women who know their right to obtain at least two services out of the contents of the health carda | 64 13.3% | 295 54.3% | 41.0%* | 72 13.8% | 354 58.3% | 44.5%* | 136 13.6% | 649 56.4% | 42.8%* |
*z test between two proportion, P < 0.05 is significant
aThe most frequent two were: Health Card Contents: 1-Personal data (name, age, address) 2- Health status (e.g. weight, height, blood pressure, blood sugar) 3- History and circumstances of previous deliveries 4- Visits made to health unit and their results