PEDIATRIC CARE AND IMMUNIZATION AMONG JORDANIAN CHILDREN

This paper investigates the behavioural aspects of health care use for Jordanian children from birth to 3 years using data from a national s urvey. Statistical analyses indicate differences in the determinants o f the use of paediatric care and immunisation: whereas immunisation co verage was already good in 1983 (and has improved subsequently), paedi atric care is used for fewer than half of the children under 1 year of age. Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the population, especially female education, and maternal health care use, are import ant determinants of these patterns of child health care. The absence o f differences in paediatric care and immunisation by sex of the child are discussed.