Osvaldo Bernardo Muchanga, Department of Human Science’s and Etic, University of St Tomás de Moçambique. Xai-Xai,Mozambique, 2024.
The study aimed to study the socio-economic determinants associated with the occurrence of Births outside the Maternity: Case of patients treated at the Chongoene Health Center in the 1st trimester of 2023. This was a quantitative study, with 8 mothers randomly selected and 4 health technicians allocated to the SSC selected intentionally. The 8 women participating in the study have a mean age of 25 years and each had an average of 2 years outside the health unit and with study was proven a positive and strong relationship between age and number of births outside the hospital, where older women tend to be the ones who had more deliveries outside the health unit. About the research it is concluded that among them are: extreme poverty, difficulty of access to health units; family history of home births; sociocultural beliefs/myths/taboos; delay in attendance at the health unit/maltreatment level and lack of prenatal consultations. Thus it is recommended the allocation of Community Ambulances, Community awareness, Humanization of Health Services.
Socio-economic determinants; Domicile; Maternity; Births.
