Does women’s empowerment increase accessibility to healthcare among women facing domestic violence?

Meerambika Mahapatro

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 8, 1024-1036

Abstract: This article aims to understand whether women’s empowerment increases access to healthcare among women facing domestic violence within the Indian context. It reports on a multi-centre cross-sectional study covering 18 states of India, with 14,405 women respondents through a systematic multi-stage sampling strategy. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Despite substantive possession of the existing attributes of empowerment, women fail to receive necessary healthcare services. This reflects a situation of biased policy processes and institutional frameworks, which are a manifestation of existing patriarchal norms and which result in the piecemeal processes of entitlements.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1224815

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