Utilisation, contents and costs of prenatal care under a rural health insurance (New Co-operative Medical System) in rural China: lessons from implementation

Table 4 The content of prenatal care by county, women giving birth in 2008, % (N)

	RC	XC	LT	P
Advice on nutrition during pregnancy given ^a	91.2 (485)	85.1 (521)	77.4 (816)	<0.01
Advice on avoiding alcohol, smoking and hazardous substances given ^b	90.1 (482)	82.4 (504)	69.0 (726)	<0.01
Blood pressure measurement ^c
0	3.2 (17)	1.6 (10)	1.8 (19)	0.13
*3+	81.1 (426)	84.5 (517)	82.5 (869)
Fetal heart monitoring by stethoscope ^d
0	2.5 (13)	2.1 (13)	1.7 (18)	0.58
*3+	83.2 (435)	84.0 (514)	83.3 (874)
Haemoglobin test ^e
0	32.2 (170)	10.0 (61)	21.4 (225)	<0.01
*3+	8.1 (43)	22.1 (135)	20.8 (219)
Urine test ^f
0	19.9 (105)	6.2 (38)	6.9 (72)	<0.01
*2+	34.3 (181)	69.6 (426)	67.4 (707)
Ultrasound screening ^g
0	0.9 (5)	0.3 (2)	0.5 (5)	<0.01
*1	11.5 (61)	2.8 (17)	6.6 (70)
2	30.9 (164)	15.2 (93)	21.2 (224)
3	29.2 (155)	28.8 (176)	37.0 (391)
4+	27.5 (146)	52.9 (324)	34.7 (366)

^a Twelve women in RC, seven women in XC and seventeen women in LT with missing values;
^b Nine women in RC, seven women in XC and nineteen women in LT with missing values;
^c Nineteen women in RC, seven women in XC and eighteen women in LT with missing values;
^d Twenty-one women in RC, seven women in XC and twenty-two women in LT with missing values;
^e Fifteen women in RC, seven women in XC and nineteen women in LT with missing values;
^f Sixteen women in RC, seven women in XC and twenty-two women in LT with missing values;
^g Thirteen women in RC, seven women in XC and fifteen women in LT with missing values;
* Recommended number of test in terms of the national guideline
P-value refers to the difference in the content of prenatal care between the counties

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