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Individual- and community-level women's empowerment and complete use of maternal healthcare services: A multilevel analysis of 34 sub-Saharan African countries

Yun-Jung Eom, Hyejun Chi, Amiya Bhatia, Hwa-Young Lee, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 370, issue C

Abstract: Current literature on women's empowerment (WE) and maternal healthcare use is limited to individual-level analysis, with a focus on single components of maternal healthcare services. As gender-related community contexts may importantly shape women's ability to seek healthcare services, we examined how both individual- and community-level WE are associated with complete use of maternal healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Keywords: Women's empowerment; Attitude to violence; Social independence; Decision-making; Maternal healthcare; Antenatal care; Facility delivery; Postnatal care; Multilevel analysis; Community; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117816

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