Fetal and Neonatal Outcomes from Antenatal Care Study in Four Countries

3,600 pregnant women were followed across Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and India to assess antenatal care quality. The data shows only 5.8% received all six essential care components at their first visit, with rates varying from 1.3% in India to 14.0% in Ethiopia. Wen-Chien Yang published this dataset on figshare in April 2026, analyzing associations between care quality and outcomes like fetal loss and low birth weight.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between antenatal care quality and fetal loss risk based on defined care components.
• Analyzing geographic disparities in antenatal care quality across four countries.
• Training classifiers to predict low birth weight outcomes from maternal care variables.
• Benchmarking healthcare intervention effectiveness using longitudinal pregnancy data.

Strengths

• Contains longitudinal data on 3,600 pregnant women followed until the end of pregnancy.
• Includes specific outcome metrics: fetal loss rates (3.7% to 6.3%) and low birth weight rates (8.5% to 16.3%).
• Defines a clear, six-component metric for 'good quality' antenatal care.
• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

eCohort study

Collection Method

Longitudinal data collection on antenatal care utilization and quality.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 17:40:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, India