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Women’s empowerment for abortion and family planning decision making among marginalized women in Nepal: a mixed method study

Reproductive Health, 2021
Background Women’s empowerment is multidimensional. Women’s education, employment, income, reproductive healthcare decision making, household level decision making and social status are vital for women’s empowerment. Nepal is committed to achieving women
Heera KC, Mangala Shrestha, Nirmala Pokharel, Surya Raj Niraula, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Surya Bahadur Parajuli   +5 more
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Women’s empowerment and child growth faltering in Ethiopia: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Despite numerous national and international efforts to alleviate child growth faltering, it remains a global health challenge. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of women’s empowerment in a wide range of ...
Alemayehu Gonie Mekonnen, Daniel Bogale Odo, Dabere Nigatu, Adem Sav, Kiya Kedir Abagero   +4 more
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Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh: a randomised control trial protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction There is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women’s empowerment.
Ashraful Alam, Kingsley Emwinyore Agho, Tanvir Huda, Shams E Arifeen, Tazeen Tahsina, Sumithra Muthayya, Michael John Dibley, Jasmin Khan, Elizabeth K Kirkwood, John Frederick Hoddinott, Tracey Lea Laba, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Afrin Iqbal, Nazia Binte Ali, Saad Ullah, Nicholas Goodwin, M Munirul Islam, Gulshan Ara   +17 more
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Depressive symptoms among women in Raqqa Governorate, Syria: associations with intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and perceived needs

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2019
Background.Raqqa Governorate, Syria has recently been affected by overlapping conflicts related to the Syrian Civil war and occupation by ISIS, resulting in widespread displacement and disruption of economic livelihoods.
K. L. Falb, A. Blackwell, J. Stennes, M. Hussein, J. Annan   +4 more
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Women's empowerment and child nutrition in South-Central Asia; how important is socioeconomic status?

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Women's empowerment has been identified as an important strategy for improving children's nutrition outcomes in many settings. Empowerment indexes that are built from cross-country routine surveys are increasingly being developed, and further ...
Michael Nnachebe Onah
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Measuring the determinants of women’s empowerment in agricultural index in Bangladesh: application of the structural equation modeling approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The study investigates the determinants of women’s empowerment utilizing data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey 2018, specifically through the construction of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Using structural equation modeling,
Paresh Kumar Sarma, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum, Dilshad Zahan Ethen, Farzana Yeasmin, Lin Crase, Andrew M. McKenzie   +6 more
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Práticas de empoderamento feminino na América Latina

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2016
Through a brief presentation of the debates regarding the concept of women’s empowerment and the insertion of the term in the perspective of gender studies, this article presents a bibliographical review of the women’s empowerment practices in Latin ...
Paloma Abelin Saldanha Marinho, Hebe Signorini Gonçalves   +1 more
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Program Pemberdayaan Perempuan Berkelanjutan di Desa Gemel Kabupaten Lombok Tengah

Jurnal Humanitas: Katalisator Perubahan dan Inovator Pendidikan, 2022
NTB has a high number of cases of early marriage, reaching 56.07% in 2018-2019. To support program independence and women's competitiveness in Gemel Village, Central Lombok District, the community established a Women's Empowerment School as the Head of ...
Aldi Gumuruh Wicaksono, Sekar Arrum Permata, Abdul Rahman   +2 more
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

The role of community-level men's and women's inequitable gender norms on women's empowerment in India: A multilevel analysis using India's National Family Health Survey-5.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundLower empowerment of women is a critical social issue with adverse public health implications. In India, deeply ingrained gender norms shape a patriarchal structure that creates systemic disadvantages for women relative to men.
Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Alison El Ayadi, Nadia Diamond-Smith   +2 more
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