We investigate how distance from healthcare centres affects service utilization for women and children. Relying on five rounds of recent nationally representative demographic and health survey data from Bangladesh, our logistic regression analyses reveal that proximity to healthcare centres barely affects the utilization of healthcare services for women and children, even in rural areas. Interestingly, this indicates that the government's preferred Community Clinics have not significantly contributed to the country's uptake of healthcare services. The low-service utilization may result from their poor standard at the local health centres indicating that improving the service quality can help Bangladesh raise the uptake of healthcare services.

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靠近医疗保健中心和服务使用：孟加拉国社区诊所的案例

我们调查与医疗保健中心的距离如何影响妇女和儿童的服务利用。依靠最近来自孟加拉国的五轮具有全国代表性的人口和健康调查数据，我们的逻辑回归分析表明，与医疗中心的距离几乎不会影响妇女和儿童的医疗服务利用，即使在农村地区也是如此。有趣的是，这表明政府偏爱的社区诊所并未显着促进该国医疗保健服务的普及。服务利用率低可能是由于他们在当地卫生中心的标准不佳，这表明提高服务质量可以帮助孟加拉国提高医疗服务的使用率。