How women's empowerment influences fertility-related outcomes and contraceptive practices: A cross-sectional study in Mozambique.

ABSTRACT: Women's empowerment could be a crucial step for tackling gender inequality and improve women's reproductive health and rights in Mozambique. This study aims to examine how different domains of women's empowerment influence fertility-related outcomes and contraceptive practices in Mozambique. We used the 2015 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) conducted in Mozambique from which a sample of 2072 women aged 15 to 49 years were selected and included in this analysis. A principal component analysis was performed, and the components retained were identified as the domains of empowerment. These were: Beliefs about violence against women, Decision-making, and Control over sexuality and safe sex. A multinomial logistic regression was run to estimate the association between levels of empowerment for ea

SUBMITTER: Castro Lopes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021614 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature