Does Empowering Women Influence Maternal Healthcare Service Utilization?: Evidence from National Family Health Survey-5, India.
Sunandita Das DeepakRajeev Ranjan SinghPublished in: Maternal and child health journal (2023)
There is a need for comprehensive strategies to enhance women's empowerment through education, employment, political participation, self-awareness, and reduction in gender-based violence and child marriages, which may improve awareness demand for better public health structure, and may ensure higher utilization of maternal healthcare services. Ultimately, these strategies may converse the higher maternal death and child mortality.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- pregnancy outcomes
- mental health
- public health
- birth weight
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- pregnant women
- mental illness
- quality improvement
- primary care
- risk factors
- cardiovascular events
- cervical cancer screening
- cardiovascular disease
- breast cancer risk
- weight gain
- health information
- insulin resistance
- intimate partner violence