Occupational Types and Antenatal Care Attendance Among Women in Ghana

Abstract

Improving antenatal care is considered a priority and has been relevant toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), yet antenatal care attendance remains relatively low in Ghana. Guided by the Andersen and Newman framework and employing logit models, we examine associations between occupational types and antenatal care among Ghanaian women aged 15–49. Type of occupation, conceptualized as a predisposing factor, has a significant impact on the frequency and timing of antenatal care attendance at the bivariate level. The effect of occupational type was considerably mediated, however, when other socioeconomic variables such as wealth status were controlled in the multivariate models.