Maternal Health, Child Well-Being and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women's Agency Matter?

Begum, Sharifa; Sen, Binayak

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1757959

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“…Previous studies also have documented similar findings [30–32, 35]. The probable reason could be pregnant women who are literate may have more exposure to media, which influence their behaviour in matters related to their own feeding and health [36]. Unawareness of illiterate women about their own health and nutritional status could be another reason associated with their poor nutritional status.…”

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Undernutrition and its association with socio-demographic, anemia and intestinal parasitic infection among pregnant women attending antenatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Kumera

Gedle

Alebel

et al. 2018

matern health, neonatol and perinatol

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BackgroundUnder nutrition is a worldwide public health problem affecting the well-being of millions of pregnant women in the developing world. Only limited research has been conducted on the prevalence and determinants of maternal nutritional status in Ethiopia. Particularly, data on the nutritional status of pregnant women are lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and determinants of undernutrition among pregnant women attending antenatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.MethodsAn institution based cross-sectional study was conducted in January and February 2016. Randomly selected 409 pregnant women were included in the study. Nutritional status was estimated using mid-upper-arm circumference. Data on potential determinants of undernutrition were gathered using a structured questionnaire. The blood sample was collected to analyze hemoglobin. The stool sample was collected to identify intestinal parasitic infections. Statistical analysis was done using logistic regression. P-value < 0.05 at 95% confidence interval was considered as statistically significant.ResultsThe prevalence of undernutrition among pregnant women was 16.2% (95% CI: 12.4–20.1%). Using a logistic regression model, factors significantly associated with the undernutrition were living in rural areas (AOR = 2.26), low educational status [no formal education (AOR = 2.91), primary education (AOR = 2.69)], history of too many births (AOR = 2.55), anemia (AOR = 2.01), and intestinal parasitic infection (AOR = 2.73).ConclusionThe study findings provide evidence for the public health significance of under nutrition among pregnant women in the study area. The problem must be combated through rural livelihood promotion, socioeconomic empowerment of women, sustained nutrition education and expansion of family-planning services in the area.

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Undernutrition and its association with socio-demographic, anemia and intestinal parasitic infection among pregnant women attending antenatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Kumera

Gedle

Alebel

et al. 2018

matern health, neonatol and perinatol

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“…Prior empirical work has been undertaken to test the robustness of this measure. Notably, Begum and Sen (2005) cross-reference this poverty measure and find it to be consistent with other welfare measures such as asset indexes, and an assessment of household poverty based on self-categorization in the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey for the same year.…”

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Labour Market Outcomes in Bangladesh: The Role of Poverty and Gender Norms

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It is frequently argued that female participation in the labour market is important for economic growth and poverty reduction. Despite this, the role that extreme poverty and gender norms play in influencing such participation is far from fully understood. This article uses nationally representative household data to address this issue using data for Bangladesh. In line with priorlargely qualitative -work, we find that extreme poverty is indeed important in explaining some of the growth in female employment in Bangladesh; we find evidence of a positive relationship between extreme poverty and participation, especially for women. In addition, we find that among young single women there appears to be a growing acceptance of their employment in the labour market. Despite this, rigid social and cultural norms are still apparent among other groups of women, especially in the rural areas.On affirme souvent que la participation des femmes au marche´du travail joue un roˆle important pour la croissance e´conomique et la re´duction de la pauvrete´. Pourtant, l 0 influence de la pauvreteé xtreˆme et des normes de genre sur cette participation est loin d 0 eˆtre parfaitement comprise. Cet article tente d 0 apporter des e´le´ments de re´ponse a`cette question en s 0 appuyant sur des donne´es repre´sentatives sur les me´nages du Bangladesh. Tout comme les travaux, essentiellement qualitatifs, effectue´s pre´ce´demment, nous constatons que la pauvrete´extreˆme est un facteur important expliquant une partie de la croissance de l 0 emploi des femmes au Bangladesh; Nous de´montrons que l 0 extreˆme pauvrete´est positivement corre´le´e avec cette participation, particulie`rement pour les femmes. En outre, nous constatons que les jeunes femmes ce´libataires semblent de plus en plus nombreuses a`accepter leur propre participation au marche´du travail. Cependant, des normes sociales et culturelles rigides continuent de re´gir les autres cate´gories de femmes, notamment en milieu rural.

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“…() found that the ability to make household decisions was positively associated with child WAZ and WLZ but not LAZ. On the other hand, Begum & Sen's () analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data did not reveal any statistically significant associations between an aggregated decision‐making autonomy score (which combined autonomy regarding her own health care, child health care, large household purchases, daily household purchases and her freedom to visit relatives and friends) with stunting, wasting or underweight. These findings are consistent with Bose's () results; this recent Indian study used an aggregate autonomy index including decision making on a similar set of aspects (own health care, major household purchases, daily household purchases, visiting family or friends and freedom of movement to market, health facility and outside of village) and found no association with the likelihood of children being underweight (low WAZ).…”

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Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: a synthesis of the literature

Cunningham

Ruel

Ferguson

et al. 2014

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Women's disempowerment is hypothesised to contribute to high rates of undernutrition among South Asian children. However, evidence for this relationship has not been systematically reviewed. This review of empirical studies aims to: (1) synthesise the evidence linking women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia and (2) suggest directions for future research. We systematically searched Global Health, Embase (classic and Ovid), MEDLINE, Campbell Collaboration, Popline, Eldis, Web of Science, EconLit and Scopus. We generated 1661 studies for abstract and title screening. We full-text screened 44 of these, plus 10 additional studies the authors were aware of. Only 12 studies fulfilled our inclusion criteria. We included English materials published between 1990 and 2012 that examined the relationship(s) of at least one women's empowerment domain and nutritional status among South Asian children. Data were extracted and synthesised within three domains of empowerment: control of resources and autonomy, workload and time, and social support. The results showed women's empowerment to be generally associated with child anthropometry, but the findings are mixed. Inter-study differences in population characteristics, settings or methods/conceptualisations of women's empowerment, and the specific domains studied, likely contributed to these inconsistencies. This review also highlights that different women's empowerment domains may relate differently to child nutritional status. Future research should aim to harmonise definitions of women's empowerment, which key domains it should include, and how it is measured. Rigorous evaluation work is also needed to establish which policies and programmes facilitate women's empowerment and in turn, foster child nutritional well-being.

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Maternal Health, Child Well-Being and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women's Agency Matter?

Cited by 22 publications

References 13 publications

Undernutrition and its association with socio-demographic, anemia and intestinal parasitic infection among pregnant women attending antenatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Undernutrition and its association with socio-demographic, anemia and intestinal parasitic infection among pregnant women attending antenatal care at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Labour Market Outcomes in Bangladesh: The Role of Poverty and Gender Norms

Women's empowerment and child nutritional status in South Asia: a synthesis of the literature

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