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Table 5 Model specification for Poisson regression analyses: disaggregated by reference year (2015–2017)

From: Trends and correlates of maternal, newborn and child health services utilization in primary healthcare facilities: an explorative ecological study using DHIMSII data from one district in the Volta region of Ghana

  

Summary statistics

Variables

Variable definition

2015

2016

2017

  

Obs.

Mean (SD)

Obs.

Mean (SD)

Obs.

Mean (SD)

Outcome variables (maternal)

 ANC attendance

Number of women attending ANC

23

27 (43)

24

29 (41)

25

35 (38)

 SVDs

Number of supervised deliveries for SVDs

23

142 (108)

24

142 (86)

25

169 (125)

Outcome variables (child)

 OPV1

Number of children receiving OPV1 vaccine

23

154 (116)

24

156 (86)

25

166 (113)

 OPV3

Number of children receiving OPV3 vaccine

23

163 (114)

24

171 (99)

25

177 (123)

 Penta1

Number of children receiving Penta 1 vaccine

23

152 (113)

24

156 (86)

25

174 (120)

 Penta3

Number of children receiving Penta 3 vaccine

23

152 (113)

24

156 (86)

25

174 (120)

 Yellow fever (YF)

Number of children receiving YF vaccine

23

176 (146)

24

150 (89)

25

158 (108)

 Measles

Number of children receiving measles vaccine

23

157 (146)

24

150 (86)

25

169 (113)

Covariates

 Publica

1 of public health facility

26

0.92 (0.27)

26

0.92 (0.27)

26

0.92 (0.27)

 Private

0 if private health facility (Reference)

26

0.08 (0.27)

26

0.08 (0.27)

26

0.08 (0.27)

 Rural

1 if rural health facility

26

0.92 (0.27)

26

0.92 (0.27)

26

0.92 (0.27)

 Urban

0 if urban health facility (Reference)

26

0.08 (0.27)

26

0.08 (0.27)

26

0.08 (0.27)

 Midwives per clinic

Number of midwives per clinic

26

0.23 (0.43)

26

0.73 (0.87)

26

0.88 (1.37)

 Other staff

Number of other health staff per clinic

25

3 (2)

25

3 (3)

25

4 (4)

 WIFA population

Number of catchments WIFA population

26

1976 (4915)

26

2025 (5038)

26

2068 (5142)

  1. Source: GHS/DHIMS II (Ho West District, 2015–2017)
  2. Legend: ANC (Antenatal Care); SVDs (Spontaneous Vaginal Deliveries); WIFA (Women in Fertility Age); IRR (Incidence Rate Ratio); CI (Confidence Interval); OPV1 (Oral Polio Vaccine 1); OPV3 (Oral Polio Vaccine 3); Penta1 (Pentavalent 1); Penta 3 (Pentavalent 3); SD (Standard Deviation)
  3. aVariable dropped from Poisson regression models for multicollinearity