Abstract
Socioeconomic development and improved health of the population require a consideration of all interfering determinants4. This chapter discusses the socioeconomic determinants of perinatal health based on research at the Maternity Souissi in Rabat, Morocco. We also attempt to extrapolate these findings to a national level.
Based on a sample of 1000 parturient women (women about to give birth), with a response rate of 98%, our study shows that: (1) The level of education of women in labor is closely related to recorded complications, so that a higher level of education is associated with decreased complications of perinatal health. (2) Women living in poor neighborhoods have a greater percentage (57%) of gestational complications compared to women from middle-class neighborhoods (29%). Women from more affluent neighborhoods were not studied in this investigation. (3) Income and the working conditions also impact perinatal health. (4) Access for monitoring of pregnancy also positively impacts the quality of maternal and newborn health. (5) Social exclusion negatively impacts perinatal health.
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Barkat, A., Radouani, M.A., Barkat, A. (2021). Social Determinants of Perinatal Health in Morocco. In: Laher, I. (eds) Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36811-1_4
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