Research on the association between women's empowerment and maternal and child
health has rapidly expanded. However, questions concerning the measurement and …

Women's empowerment is an intrinsic human rights goal that has implications for the health
and well-being of women and their children. Poor measurement hampers current research …

Background Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality,
represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific …

Background Women's empowerment has a direct impact on maternal and child health care
service utilization. Large scope measurement of contraceptive use in several dimensions is …

Background There is still a large gap in relation to effectively meet the contraceptive needs
and family planning goals of adolescents. Our aim was to describe how having a partner …

Background Increasing women's status and male involvement are important strategies in
reducing preventable maternal morbidity and mortality. While efforts to both empower …

Introduction The use of antenatal care (ANC) plays a major role in minimizing maternal and
child mortality through effective and appropriate screening, preventive, or treatment …

There is an abundant literature on the relationship between women's education and
maternal and child outcomes, including antenatal and postnatal care, onset of antenatal …

The development field needs to be more serious about gender inequities and women's
empowerment. By ignoring gender inequities, many development projects fail to achieve …

Increasing numbers of development agencies and individual projects espouse objectives of
women's empowerment, and there is a growing body of conceptual and empirical work on …