Women's health and well-being in five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries: Domains and their associations with early-life conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women's health and well-being (WHW) have been receiving growing attention, but limited progress has been made on how to measure its different domains in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We used data from five long-term birth cohorts in Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and South Africa to explore different domains of adult WHW, and how these domains relate to early life exposures.

Methods

Based upon an a priori conceptualisation of eight postulated WHW outcomes available in the data, we grouped them as follows: human capital (intelligence quotient, schooling, height, and teenage childbearing), metabolic health (body mass index and metabolic syndrome score), and psychological (happiness and Self-Reported Questionnaire (SRQ) scores). Correlation analyses c

SUBMITTER: Hartwig FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11327850 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature