The reason that I did not go – determinants of the use of antenatal care services in South Africa, two decades after the end of apartheid

According to South Africa's new constitution, access to health care is a fundamental right. Equitable provision of maternal health care is important in redressing past legacies and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We analyse the utilisation of antenatal care (ANC) services under South Africa's public health system to inform policy concerned with equity of access. We conceptualise access to care as covering three distinct but …