Effects of spousal migration on access to healthcare for women left behind: A cross-sectional follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women left behind by migration represent a unique and growing population yet remain understudied as key players in the context of migration and development. Using a unique longitudinal survey of life in Bangladesh, the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys, we examined the role of spousal migration in healthcare utilization for women. The objective of this study was to assess realized access to care (do women actually get healthcare when it is needed) and consider specific macrostructural, predisposing, and resource barriers to care that are related to migration.

Methods and findings

In a sample of 3,187 currently married women, we estimated multivariate logistic and multinomial regression models controlling for a wide range of baseline sociodemographic factors

SUBMITTER: West HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638922 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature