Women's empowerment and child nutrition in South-Central Asia; how important is socioeconomic status?

ABSTRACT: Women's empowerment has been identified as an important strategy for improving children's nutrition outcomes in many settings. Empowerment indexes that are built from cross-country routine surveys are increasingly being developed, and further disaggregated analyses of such indexes are needed to examine in-depth, the relationship between women's empowerment and outcomes including children's nutrition. The Demographic and Health Surveys across five countries in South-Central Asia was used to examine the relationship between women's empowerment and children's nutrition outcomes. Empowerment was measured using the three domains (attitude to violence, social independence, and decision-making) in the Survey-based Women's emPowERment (SWPER) index. Main and interaction effects between the SWPER d

SUBMITTER: Onah MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7779324 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature