ABSTRACT
Background: Maternal and child healthcare is a leading priority in the health care strategy of Viet Nam. Motherhood safety is amongst contents of reproductive healthcare strategy to ensure safe delivery, reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity as well as mortality. Aims: To discover the utilization of delivery care and related factors to women in selecting location for delivery. Subjects and method: The study was carried out in Chillilab \u2013 Demographic and Epidemiological Surveillance was set up in Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province by the School of Public Health. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used in collecting the data. Results: 97% of pregnant women chose public health facilities as their delivery place and 2.5% of pregnant women had homebirths. The main reasons for delivery in hospitals were trust on care quality and sufficient equipment for emergency care. The complicated delivery rate was 14% and Cesarean section delivery was 12%. Hospitalized deliveries were more common in the women with higher education and/or better economic status. Conclusion: There should be improved healthcare communications to encourage all women to give birth at health facilities. Improving the quality of delivery care in community health stations is important to give opportunities for deprived women to receive safer deliveries.