Trends in Women's Empowerment and Their Association with Childhood Vaccination in Cambodia: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys (2010-2022).

ABSTRACT: Background: Women's empowerment has been significantly associated with improved child health outcomes. Cambodia, amid a rapid socioeconomic transition, offers a critical setting to examine how advancements in women's empowerment over the past decade have influenced child immunization completion within the first two years of life. Methods: Data from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 2010, 2014, and 2021-22, encompassing 9222 women with recent births, were analyzed. Empowerment was measured across literacy and information access, employment, and decision-making domains. Multinomial logistic regression assessed associations between empowerment factors and completion of oral polio (OPV), diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP), pneumococcal conjugate (PCV), and

SUBMITTER: Song H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12846650 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature