Status of woman and evaluation of women's opinions on usage of maternal child health services in Turkey

In this paper it is aimed to determine the effect of women status on using of mother infant services and child health. In the research the datas belong to women who gave birth in last five years and her infants from the data set of 2013 Population and Health Research of Turkeys and were used. In the scope of the research, the opinions of participants on gender were used as first dimension, the opinions on controlling on woman were used as second dimension, the opinions on physical violence to woman were used as thirt dimension of the evaluation. The total of avarages of these three dimensions is also calculated to evaluate general status of woman. The relationship between status of woman and using mother infant services and the relationship between the indexes of child health and socio demographic conditions in which the woman live were examined in this research. Whether the children live or not and their weights firstly measured when they born were measured as child health indexes. The prenatal care services, getting help from health staff during birth and using modern family planning techniques indexes were chosen for measuring usage of mother infant services. In the analyzes the importance test between independent groups (t test) and variance analysis (F test) were used. In the importance test of difference between two avarages to define t value Levene's variences are used and t and p value which should be used in cases that are not homogeneous taken into account. In the cases that compared more than two groups the homogeneous test of variences are done by using Levene's test and in cases that variences are not homogeneous it's discussed that whether differences between groups are statistically meaningful or not according to Kruskal Wallis test. It was reached conclusion that the opinions on gender, controlling the woman and physical violence, and general woman status show differences according to socio-demographic features. It was seen that the status of woman is high in the houses in the cities and the west region of country in which education level of woman and her husband and household prosperity are high. Usage of family planning techniques is seen high among the woman has high opinion level on gender, has low rate of being exposed physical violence and has high level of general woman status. It was seen that there is a relationship between dimensions used evaluation of woman status and usage of mother infant services and depending on highness of woman status, these services are used much more but there is no relationship between this and child health indexes. In the research it reveals the relationship between the status of woman and usage mother child services and the various suggestions on this subject are presented. It though it would be useful for health policies and policies to be made.