Celik and Hotchkiss [12] showed that household wealth is positively and significantly associated with choosing health facility for delivery.
Also, a Turkish study found that household wealth is positively and significantly associated with the choice of health facility for delivery [27].
Free transport to a health facility for delivery and, in case of a complication, a contribution towards costs of accommodation and food for a chaperone are also included in the package.
In addition to services, the vouchers provide access to free transport to the health facility for delivery and a contribution towards the costs of accommodation and food for a chaperone.
These estimates were from the District Level Household Survey (DLHS), and were captured based on two simple questions: 1) How much did it cost you for transportation to the health facility for delivery, and 2) How much expenditure did you incur for delivery excluding transport cost [39].
Since women usually desire better health conditions for themselves and their children alike, they are more likely to utilise health facility for delivery purposes whenever an enabling environment avails itself [33] and as such manifesting in high utilisation of health facilities for delivery.
Only 7% of the poorest women reported cost as a deciding reason for not going to a facility for delivery, both among those whose deliveries were unattended and those whose deliveries were attended by a TBA or other clinical provider (Figure 3).
In Tanzania, half of all pregnant women access a health facility for delivery.
At each ANC visit the woman is counseled to return to the facility for delivery.
For instance, the husbands' approval is important for women to utilise health facility for delivery [ 8].
Many of these maternal deaths are avoidable if women use a health facility for delivery.
