Table 2.
Division-wise distribution of health facilities, long-acting modern contraception (LAMC) availability, readiness to provide long-acting modern contraception, and health average distance from the demographic and health survey programme clusters in Bangladesh
| Division | Availability of LAMC (N = 1524) | Types of health facilities where LAMC is available (N = 1357) | Average distance between home and health facility (km) | Health facility management | Health facility infrastructure | Severity of the availability of LAMC at the nearest health care facility | Health care facility readiness to provide LAMC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n = 1357) | No (n = 167) | District hospital (n = 4) | Upazila to community-level government hospital (n = 1271) | Mother and Child Welfare Centre (n = 7) | NGO clinic or hospital (n = 55) | Private hospital (n = 21) | ||||||
| Barishal | 106 (93.71) | 7 (6.29) | 1 (0.36) | 101 (95.88) | 1 (0.65) | 3 (2.73) | 0 (0.00) | 6.43 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.70 | 0.47 |
| Chattogram | 261 (90.49) | 27 (9.51) | 1 (0.32) | 245 (93.86) | 1 (0.53) | 9 (3.52) | 5 (1.76) | 5.85 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 0.74 | 0.86 |
| Dhaka | 264 (87.07) | 39 (12.93) | 1 (0.32) | 234 (88.63) | 1 (0.41) | 19 (7.30) | 9 (3.34) | 4.83 | 0.93 | 0.97 | 0.91 | 0.85 |
| Khulna | 175 (93.21) | 13 (6.79) | 1 (0.31) | 165 (94.41) | 1 (0.62) | 7 (4.19) | 1 (0.48) | 5.92 | 0.87 | 0.92 | 0.63 | 0.57 |
| Rajshahi | 201 (91.54) | 19 (8.46) | 0 (0.00) | 191 (94.75) | 1 (0.50) | 7 (3.32) | 3 (1.24) | 7.12 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.58 | 0.67 |
| Rangpur | 147 (76.36) | 46 (23.64) | 0 (0.00) | 141 (95.59) | 1 (0.63) | 3 (2.24) | 2 (1.45) | 5.98 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.72 | 0.88 |
| Sylhet | 93 (96.13) | 4 (3.87) | 0 (0.00) | 87 (94.22) | 1 (0.50) | 4 (3.54) | 1 (1.41) | 8.34 | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.43 |
| Mymensingh | 110 (90.0) | 12 (10.0) | 0 (0.00) | 106 (96.43) | 0 (0.00) | 3 (2.66) | 1 (0.88) | 6.44 | 0.69 | 0.78 | 0.62 | 0.52 |
| Grand average distance | 6.36 | 0.79 | 0.83 | 0.69 | 0.65 | |||||||