caa a22 4500 606222022 CHVBK 20210128101131.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00038-015-0711-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00038-015-0711-x Equity in maternal health care service utilization: a systematic review for developing countries [Elektronische Daten] [Zafer Çalışkan, Dilek Kılıç, Selcen Öztürk, Emre Atılgan] Objectives: The objective was to explore progress of equity in the utilization of maternal health care services in developing countries since maternal care is a crucial factor in reducing maternal mortality, which is targeted by the Millennium Development Goal 5. Methods: A systematic review of quantitative studies was done. PubMed Central, Web of Science, and Science Direct databases were searched for peer-reviewed and English-language articles published between 2005 and 2015. Results: Thirty-six articles were included in the review. The results reveal the lack of equity in the utilization of maternal health care in developing countries. Thirty-three out of 36 studies found evidence supporting severe inequities while three studies found evidence of equity or at least improvement in terms of equity. Conclusions: Most of the literature devoted to utilization of maternal health care generally provides information on the level of maternal care used and ignore the equity problem. Research in this area should focus not only on the level of maternal care used but also on the most disadvantaged segments of the population in terms of utilization of maternal care in order to reach the set targets. Swiss School of Public Health, 2015 Equity nationallicence Maternal care nationallicence Developing countries nationallicence Health care utilization nationallicence Systematic review nationallicence Çalışkan Zafer Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut Kılıç Dilek Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut Öztürk Selcen Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut Atılgan Emre Department of Health Management, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey aut International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/7(2015-11-01), 815-825 1661-8556 60:7<815 2015 60 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0711-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0711-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Çalışkan Zafer Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kılıç Dilek Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Öztürk Selcen Department of Economics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Atılgan Emre Department of Health Management, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/7(2015-11-01), 815-825 1661-8556 60:7<815 2015 60 38