Rural-urban disparities in caesarean deliveries in sub-Saharan Africa: a multivariate non-linear decomposition modelling of Demographic and Health Survey data

• Main Authors: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah (Author), Richard Gyan Aboagye (Author), Abdul-Aziz Seidu (Author), Joshua Okyere (Author), Aliu Mohammed (Author), Vijay Kumar Chattu (Author), Eugene Budu (Author), Faustina Adoboi (Author), Sanni Yaya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Introduction Globally, the rate of caesarean deliveries increased from approximately 16.0 million in 2000 to 29.7 million in 2015. In this study, we decomposed the rural-urban disparities in caesarean deliveries in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods Data for the study were extracted from the most...