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Item Restricted Factors affecting utilization of maternal and child health care services in selected urban poor commnities: analysis from household survey data(1991-05) Abbu, Gloricris C.; Herrin, Alejandro N.The study analyzes health-seeking behavior of urban poor households with regards to maternal and child health care particularly prenatal and postnatal care, infant immunization and well-baby care. In particular, it seeks to examine the effect of information dissemination and motivational work by a network of barangay health managers and volunteer health workers on health care service utilization. The analysis, using the logit technique, reveals that visits to households by barangay health managers and volunteer health workers to provide information and to motivate mothers to seek needed health care services are important in determining health care utilization. After controlling for background socioeconomic factors, households who were visited by project health outreach workers (as well as other non-project health personnel) had a higher rate of modern health care service utilization than households who were not visited. If "Health for All by the Year 2000" is to be realized, health projects, particularly primary health care projects, should consider not only the provision of services per se but also the modification of household consumption decisions. Information dissemination and motivational work through the fielding of health outreach workers in the communities can be a significant factor in influencing household health-seeking behavior.