Time to early initiation of postnatal care service utilization and its predictors among women who gave births in the last 2 years in Ethiopia: a shared frailty model.

The overall postnatal care service utilization among women in the survey was low, particularly within the first 24 h of delivery. Policy-makers and implementers should promote the utilization of antenatal care and institutional delivery using mass media to increase the continuum of maternity care. The government should also design a new approach to enhance the uptake of postnatal care services for poor households and to scale up the PNC services, including the different possibilities for women who give births at the health facilities and homes. Future researchers had better assess the capacity and accessibility of the local health systems, the level of decentralized decision making, common cultural practices, knowledge, attitude, and perception of mothers towards PNC service utilization.