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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Does utilization of MCH services influence subsequent contraceptive use?

Evidence from Morocco.

AUTHORS

Magnani RJ; Hotchkiss DR; Mroz TA; Rous JJ; Eckert EL; McDavid KA

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1995. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population

Association of America, San Francisco, California, April 4-6, 1995. 29 p.

ABSTRACT

Family planning (FP) services are integrated with general health services to some degree in most settings, but the

ramifications of such integration on service use remain to be understood. This study, therefore, used data on 3578

women with at least one live birth during 1986-92 from Morocco's 1992 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS),

supplemented with information on the supply of maternal-child health (MCH) and FP services obtained from the

Service Availability Module of the DHS, to address whether utilization of MCH services influences the likelihood of

subsequent contraceptive usage and how the relationship between MCH service and contraceptive use is influenced

by the availability, quality, and configuration of such integrated services. Regression techniques were used to model

contraceptive use decisions as a function of 1) the availability, quality, and packaging of services; 2) community-

and individual-level determinants, and 3) MCH service use. The individual-level nature of the analysis required a "full-

information maximum likelihood" estimation procedure to eliminate bias. This study revealed that, in Morocco,

intensive use of MCH services results in a significantly greater likelihood of contraceptive usage when the effects of

other variables are controlled statistically. This intensive use of MCH services is, in turn, determined by the service

supply environment, primarily the availability and accessibility of both MCH and FP services. The possible

explanations for the observed results are 1) that MCH service use causes increased contraceptive usage, 2) that

contact with contraceptive service providers leads to use of MCH services, and 3) that women who use MCH services

are predisposed to accept FP services. It is probably that MCH service is positively influencing contraceptive usage,

but further research is needed to determine which aspects of MCH service may be responsible for this effect. FP

research would also do well to attempt to measure the economic and normative/cultural/qualitative dimensions of

contraceptive behavior not covered in surveys like the DHS. These results strongly support current MCH/FP service

delivery strategies. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2546-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Does utilization of MCH services influence subsequent

contraceptive use? Evidence from Morocco.", is(are) Magnani RJ; Hotchkiss DR; Mroz TA; Rous JJ; Eckert EL;

McDavid KA. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] 1995. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population

Association of America, San Francisco, California, April 4-6, 1995. 29 p.". This article was published in 1995 in

English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2546-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN:

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