Socio-economic Determinants of Maternal Services Uptake in Kenya

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Kenya had relatively high early childhood and maternal mortality. Maternal health care services have shown to be an effective strategy for reducing early childhood and maternal mortality. A worldwide study carried out in 2014 found about 73% of all the 2,443,000 maternal deaths between 2003 and 2009 were due to direct obstetric causes and almost half of them occurred in Africa [5]. Infant and under-five mortality were 65 and 141 deaths per 1000 live births, respectively [12] in Kenya.