Women's economic empowerment, participation in decision-making and exposure to violence as risk indicators for early childhood caries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In view of the association between early childhood caries (ECC])and maternal social risk factors, this study tried to determine if there were associations between indicators of processes, outputs and outcomes of women's empowerment, and the prevalence of ECC.

Methods

In this ecological study, indicators measuring the explanatory variables - economic empowerment, decision-making and violence against women - were selected from the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the UN-Women Strategic Plan 2018-2021 and WHO database. Indicators measuring the outcome variables - the prevalence of ECC for children aged 0 to 2 years, and 3 to 5 years - were extracted from a published literature. The general linear models used to determine the association between the outco

SUBMITTER: Folayan MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7026999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature