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Association between women's autonomy and unintended pregnancy in India

Raja Ram, +2 more
- 01 May 2022 - 
- Vol. 15, pp 101060-101060
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In this article , the authors examined the association between women's autonomy and unintended pregnancy in India and found that women with higher autonomy had 16% lower adjusted odds of having an unintended pregnancy than women with lower autonomy (OR adj = 0.84; 95% CI: 0.72-0.99).
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This article is published in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health.The article was published on 2022-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Unintended pregnancy & Autonomy.

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Negotiating Autonomy: The Linkages between Intimate Partner Violence, Women’s Paid Work Status and Birth Outcomes

TL;DR: In this article , a multinomial logistic regression has been used to determine the relation between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and their consequent impact on birth outcomes.
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Women’s Autonomy and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru: Analysis of a National Health Survey

TL;DR: In this paper , a Poisson family generalized linear regression model was estimated to calculate adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR) for the association between women's autonomy and IPV with their respective 95% confidence intervals (CI).
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The effects of unintended pregnancy on infant, child, and parental health: a review of the literature.

TL;DR: A framework for determining and measuring the pathways between unintended pregnancy and future health outcomes is outlined, indicating a need for more studies in developing countries and for further research to assess the impact of unintended pregnancy on parental health and long-term health outcomes for children and families.
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Dimensions of women's autonomy and the influence on maternal health care utilization in a north Indian city.

TL;DR: Investigation of the dimensions of women’s autonomy and their relationship to maternal health care utilization in Varanasi, India demonstrated that women with greater freedom of movement obtained higher levels of antenatal care and were more likely to use safe delivery care.
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Global, regional, and subregional trends in unintended pregnancy and its outcomes from 1990 to 2014: estimates from a Bayesian hierarchical model

TL;DR: A Bayesian hierarchical time series model is developed whereby the unintended pregnancy rate is a function of the distribution of women across subgroups defined by marital status and contraceptive need and use, and of the risk of unintended pregnancy in each subgroup.
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TL;DR: This report shows trends since 1982 in whether a woman wanted to get pregnant just before the pregnancy occurred, the most direct measure available of the extent to which women are able (or unable) to choose to have the number of births they want, when they want them.
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Women's Autonomy, Education and Employment in Oman and their Influence on Contraceptive Use

TL;DR: While empowered women were more likely to use contraception, women's education was a better predictor of “met need” than autonomy, as traditional factors and community influence remain strong.
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