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Table 4 Access to health services in Brazil by Venezuelan women who arrived in Manaus and Boa Vista between 2018 and 2021

From: Migration process of Venezuelan women to Brazil: living conditions and use of health services in Manaus and Boa Vista, 2018–2021

Access to health services in Brazil

Manaus

Boa Vista

Total

P-value

N = 755

N = 1257

N = 2012

%

%

%

Est.

Health service use in the last 2 weeks

31.1

32.0

31.7

0.715

Reason for using the health service

   

0.326

    illness

20.1

25.1

23.3

 

    Diagnostic test (blood, urine, etc.)

8.0

7.6

7.8

 

    Vaccination

19.5

15.2

16.8

 

    Prevention, check up or childcare

22.5

17.6

19.4

 

    Others

17.0

21.2

19.7

 

    For women who are pregnant at the time of the interview

    

    Prenatal care

85.8

85.3

85.5

0.121

Adequacy of prenatal care adjusted for gestational agea

81.2

45.0

62.0

< 0.001

  1. aOnly for women who were pregnant or had a child in the last 12 months in Brazil. It was considered adequate when there was at least 1 consultation in the first trimester of pregnancy, two consultations in the second trimester and three for those who reported being in the third trimester of pregnancy. And at least six consultations for those who gave birth in Brazil in the last 12 months