Use of reproductive health care services among urban migrant women in Bangladesh

BMC Women's Health

Table 2 Reproductive health care services of Bangladeshi urban women by migrant status (%)

RH care services	Migrant (N = 8921)	Non-migrant (N = 5270)
Family Planning
Any modern method of family planning (Pill, condom, injection, IUD, female sterilization, male sterilization, implant)	N = 4193	N = 2157
	88.2	89.5
Sources of current method**	N = 3697	N = 1930
Public sector: Govt. services	21.5	24.2
NGOs	18.6	18.2
Private medical: hospital/clinic, pharmacy, qualified doctor, traditional doctor	3.5	3.6
Shop, relative/friend	51.3	51.7
Others	6.0	3.9
Don’t know	2.6	2.0
No antenatal care (ANC) at last pregnancy*	N = 3421	N = 1762
No antenatal care (ANC) at last pregnancy*	29.3	15.1
Place of delivery*	N = 3421	N = 1762
Home (own, parents, in-laws, others)	75.8	63.5
Govt. (hospital, upzila health complex, MCWC-maternal and child welfare centers)	11.1	16.6
Private clinic & NGO	12.9	19.9
Other	0.2	0.0
No medical check after birth*	70.3	57.9
Mother not taken Vitamin A after delivery*	71.0	65.2
Treatment sought for STIs within last 6 months** ^a	N = 2595	N = 1335
Treatment sought for STIs within last 6 months** ^a	40.9 %	44.6 %

*Group comparisons by χ², p = .000; **Group comparisons by χ², p ≤ 0.03
^aThe frequencies of women who sought treatment for STIs in this table account for seven symptoms listed in the survey, and are therefore greater than the frequencies in Table 1, which account for only two symptoms

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