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this Study deals with the maternal care in Egypt during 1995-2005. From the study we get the following results: 1-There is an increase in the number of Egyptian women who seek pregnancy care from a doctor, where this percentage increased from 39% in 1995 to 69% in 2003, also the percentage of the women who received regular pregnancy care has increased, where this percentage is 28% in 1995 and increased to 56% in 2003. We also noticed that the percentage of the women who received pregnancy care during the last two months of pregnancy increased from 43% in 2000 to 62% in 2003. 2- In general we noticed that there is an increase in the percentage of the women who got vaccination against tetanus from a governmental service provider. 3-The study also showed an increase in the percentage of babies whose mothers got help during the labor from the service providers, where the percentage increased from about 35% in 1988 to 74% in 2005, In general we find an increase in the willing to have the medical care services in all the geographical districts but rural areas still suffers from the decrease in the willing to have these services compared to the urban ones. 3-The results also illustrate that mothers of ages 35 years are less likely to get pregnancy care compared to younger mothers, also there is an inverse relationship between the order of the baby and pregnancy care indicators, specially when women of Upper Egypt are less willing to have the pregnancy care services, also as illustrated by the data, there is a direct relationship between the educational status of the women and receiving pregnancy care, there is an increase in the percentage of women who received pregnancy care for mothers who works for a cash rather than mothers who don’t work for cash for all pregnancy care indicators except for the vaccination against tetanus. 4-It is noticed that there is an increase in the percentage of babies who have been delivered under the supervision of a doctor where this percentage has increased from 39% in 1995 to about 64% in 2003, and on the contrary, there is a decrease in the percentage of babies who have been delivered by the aid of the daya from about 49 % in 1995 to about 28%o in 2003. The data illustrates that the probability of the delivery in a healthy place increase with the increase of mothers' age as for the women, who delivered at home, on the contrary the percentage of that mothers who aged less than 20 years are about 17% and decreased to about 15% among mothers aged 35 years and more in 2003, while the two percentages are almost similar (4.6% - 4.1% for the two groups respectively) in 2000. As for the place of residence is considered, we find that the probability of having a medical care after labor is in general higher in urban rather than rural areas that is for the women who delivered at a healthy place and also for labors that took place at homes and received medical care after or before labor by about two days. As for the educational status, it is noticed that the probability of having a medical care after labor for women who delivered at a healthy place increase with the increase of the educational status in the years 2000 and 2003.
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