Applying a Power and Gender Lens to Understanding Health Care Provider Experience and Behavior: A Multicountry Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: A limited but growing body of literature shows that health care providers (HCPs) in reproductive, maternal, and newborn health face challenges that affect how they provide services. Our study investigates provider perspectives and behaviors using 4 interrelated power domains-beliefs and perceptions; practices and participation; access to assets; and structures-to explore how these constructs are differentially experienced based on one's gender, position, and function within the health system. We conducted a framework-based secondary analysis of qualitative in-depth interview data gathered with different cadres of HCPs across Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, and Togo (n=123). We find across countries that power dynamics manifest in and are affected by all 4 domains, with some variation by HCP cad

SUBMITTER: Sripad P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10698231 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature