Influences of health facility type for delivery and experience of cesarean section on maternal and newborn postnatal care between birth and facility discharge in Malawi

Table 3 Type of health facility where women delivered stratified by maternal and newborn postnatal health check between birth and facility discharge in Malawi, MDHS 2015–16

	Maternal postnatal health check between birth and facility discharge				Newborn postnatal health check between birth and facility discharge
	Yes		No		Yes		No
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Type of health facility where women delivered	***				***
Government hospital	1930	52%	1759	48%	2626	72%	1016	28%
Government health center/health post/others	2860	42%	3924	58%	4286	64%	2452	36%
private/CHAM/mission hospital	637	60%	420	40%	811	78%	234	22%
CHAM health center/blm/others	297	48%	324	52%	429	70%	181	30%

Note
***p < 0.001
Row percentages sum to 100%
The weighted totals were 12,150 for maternal postnatal health check between birth and discharge and 12,033 for newborn postnatal health check between birth and discharge (most recent singleton births in facilities in the past 5 years)

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