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Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment and Their Influence on the Utilization of Maternal Health Services in an Egyptian Village: A Multivariate Analysis
KAWAGUCHI, LEO
NAWAL, ABDEL MONEIM FOUAD
CHIANG, CHIFA
INASS, HELMY HASSAN ELSHAIR
NAGAH, MAHMOUD ABDOU
SANEYA, RIZK EL BANNA
AOYAMA, ATSUKO
open access
maternal health
health service utilization
women’s empowerment
principal component analysis
Egypt
This study investigated the association between women’s empowerment and the utilization of maternal health services by women in Egypt and analyzed the dimensions of women’s empowerment that are associated with increased health service utilization. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a village in Egypt in November 2007. A total of 189 women, who had ever been married and had at least one child, were interviewed to collect data on the utilization of maternal health services, such as the number of antenatal care (ANC) visits during their pregnancies and whether delivery of their child was attended by skilled health personnel. Proxy variables on five different dimensions of women’s empowerment were obtained by principal component analysis, and were tested for an association with the utilization of maternal health services, using logistic regression models. The five dimensions extracted from the data were freedom of movement, economic security and stability, support by family and freedom from domination, decision-making in daily life, and relationship with the community / participation in society. Among these dimensions, support by family and freedom from domination was the only factor that was positively associated with maternal health service utilization (regular ANC: OR=1.38, P=0.05; deliveries assisted by skilled health personnel: OR=1.71, P=0.01). Current age was also associated with the latter, possibly influenced by the recent rapid increase in the provision of health services in the village studied. Furthermore, this study revealed that a relatively high proportion of younger women still only limited access to maternal health services in Egypt.
Nagoya University School of Medicine
2014-02
eng
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
https://doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.76.1-2.161
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19494
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/17411
10.18999/nagjms.76.1-2.161
http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/medlib/nagoya_j_med_sci/7612/7612.html
2186-3326
0027-7622
Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
76
1-2
161
171
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/17411/files/17_Kawaguchi.pdf
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