Rural-urban differentials in the influences of individual and geospatial preparedness on institutional childbirth: a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh.

Objective: This study aims to explore the rural-urban differentials in the influences of individual and geospatial preparedness on institutional childbirth in Bangladesh. A related aim of this paper is to derive estimates to measure geospatial preparedness for institutional births, through statistical modelling, when no data are available for measuring this areal indicator.

Design, Settings And Participants: The paper used data from a large-scale nationally representative Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019.