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Antenatal Care (ANC) is a category of preventive healthcare aiming to provide regular check-ups that allow doctors or midwives to treat and prevent potential health problems along the pregnancy period while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child. The ANC is one of the four pillars of safe motherhood recommended strategies together with family planning, essential obstetric care “clean/safe delivery” and emergency obstetric care. Antenatal care from a skilled health professional is essential in order to monitor the pregnancy and reduce the risks for the mother and child during pregnancy and at delivery. To be most effective, it is recommended that all pregnant women should have at least four antenatal checkups during pregnancy, commencing as early as possible in the first trimester.
Interacting factors were found to shape ANC utilization pattern. Factors related to the socio demographic features of women include; ethnicity, residence, rural-urban, education, parity, age, marital status, occupation and family size. Structure on women’s decisions on ANC utilization, women’s position in the society, women’s knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and culture were also found to correlate with ANC utilization Other determinants are related to health service characteristics” availability, accessibility, affordability”.
The ANC follow-up visits have become more prevalent in Egypt than ever before. The 2014 EDHS showed that the proportion of pregnant women who had at least four ANC visits reached about 83%. That proportion experienced a significant jump compared with that indicated in the 2008 EDHS, which reached 67%. Factors found to shape ANC utilization pattern included; mother age35 and older, child’s birth order, residence urban/ rural and the attained education.
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