2005
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)17872-6
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Taking action to improve women's health through gender equality and women's empowerment

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“…Legal empowerment, as captured by women's legitimate ownership over land and houses, is closely associated with women's decisionmaking power in the household (27,52) as well as protection against domestic violence (19,53) . It was not quite clear why women's title to land and houses decreased their ability to feed children appropriately in Benin and Niger compared with similar women with no land or home ownership.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Legal empowerment, as captured by women's legitimate ownership over land and houses, is closely associated with women's decisionmaking power in the household (27,52) as well as protection against domestic violence (19,53) . It was not quite clear why women's title to land and houses decreased their ability to feed children appropriately in Benin and Niger compared with similar women with no land or home ownership.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Socio-familial empowerment enhances the ability to acquire resources, such as information and support from friends and relatives. Women with lower socio-familial empowerment are at higher risk of being unhealthy (19) and mentally depressed or injured (20) as the result of limited access to reproductive health services (21)(22)(23) and higher risk of domestic violence (24) . Poor physical and mental health may indirectly hinder provision of timely, independent and proper feeding and child care.…”
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“…This could be attributed to the improved health related practices among women with high literacy levels compared to women with low or no education. For instance, maternal education level and utilization of health services are positively associated irrespective of the socio-economic status of the family (Grown, 2005 (RGI, 2011) thus, making India primarily a rural population. The people residing in the rural segments have poor availability, accessibility, affordability of health services when compared to their urban counterpart mainly because of complex socioeconomic and cultural structure in the rural area, which challenges the uptake of subsidized services of the government by the vulnerable groups (Kumar, 2013;Montgomery, 2014;Gupta, 2016).…”
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“…Tel: +234(0)803 049 0729; +234 (1) 291 6562. Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License nations, but also in the developing countries (UN, 2003;Grown et al, 2005). These strides have led to substantial decline in burdens associated with childbirth and child rearing (Grown et al, 2005).…”
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confidence: 97%
“…Over the past few decades, great strides have been made in improvement of women's health status; more than a decade has been added to life expectancy, and fertility rates in both developed and developing countries have declined substantially, helping to reduce burdens associated with childbirth and child rearing (Grown et al, 2005). Despite this progress, more than half a million women, 99% of whom live in the developing world continue to die every year in pregnancy and childbirth due to entirely preventable reasons (WHO, 2015b).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%