ANTENATAL CARE AND SOURCE OF CARE DURING PREGNANCY

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 30  (1) , 21-34
Abstract
The influence of the source of care on the inequalities in the number of antenatal visits was studied in a representative sample of births in France in 1976. The sources of care during pregnancy were divided into 5 groups according to number and qualification of the medical staff involved: hospital antenatal clinic, gynecologist or obstetrician, general practitioner, hospital antenatal clinc and other practitioners or several practitioners outside hospital. The number of antenatal visits was related to the source of care. The inequalities in antenatal care according to maternal characteristics originated from inequal access to the most specialized sources of care and disparities in the number of visits within each source of care. Living in a big conurbation was a positive factor for consulting an obstetrician, going to a hospital antenatal clinic and having a large number of visits; but even after allowing for this factor, there remained inequalities among women according to their sociodemographic characteristics or the source of care.

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