How does women's empowerment relate to antenatal care attendance? A cross-sectional analysis among rural women in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In South Asia, roughly half of women attend at least four antenatal care visits with skilled health personnel, the minimum number recommended by the World Health Organization for optimal birth outcomes. A much greater proportion of women attend at least one antenatal care visit, suggesting that a key challenge is ensuring that women initiate antenatal care early in pregnancy and continue to attend after their first visit. One critical barrier to antenatal care attendance may be that women do not have sufficient power in their relationships, households, or communities to attend antenatal care when they want to. The main goals of this paper were to 1) understand the potential effects of intervening on direct measures of women's empowerment-including household decision maki

SUBMITTER: Winters S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262442 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature