Investigation on status of reproductive care of rural reproduction women

  Objective   To understand the status of rural reproduction women of reproductive care in Shanxi Province.

  Methods   A stratified-cluster sampling technique was employed in four ar eas including 22 villages.Prevalence survey about reproductive health status and needs such as birth, preventive health care, and so on was carried out for 3 256 women aged 18-45 years.

  Results   the average age of initial marriage was 19.2 years old, average gravidity was 1.95 times, and average birth living-child was 0.86 each one woman.The proportions of taking part in examination before marr iage in couples was 34.09%.There was the tendency that the younger of women, the higher in education level, the higher in the proportions of taking part in examination before marriage and antenatal care.The main place for their receiving repro ductive health services focused on countryside birth control center, and the main resource of getting information about repr ocductive health was television.The needs about reproductive health service was urgent for reproductive-age women.The most urgent needs (94.17%)was to get antenatal care.

  Conclusion   the reproductive health care was weak in rural women, but the womens needs was urgent for the care.The level of reproductive health correlated to the level of womens education positively.