Gender norms and women's empowerment as barriers to facility birth: A population-based cross-sectional study in 26 Nigerian states using the World Values Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Central and western Africa struggle with the world's lowest regional proportion of facility birth at 57%. The aim of the current study was to compare beliefs related to maternal health care services, science/technology, gender norms, and empowerment in states with high vs. low proportions of facility birth in Nigeria.

Methods

Face-to-face interviews were performed as part of a nationally representative survey in Nigeria using a new module to measure values and beliefs related to gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights collected as part the 2018 World Values Survey. We compared beliefs related to maternal health care services, science/technology, gender norms, and empowerment between Nigerian states with facility birth proportions > 50% vs. < 25% as pr

SUBMITTER: Litorp H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387800 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature