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Social networks, normative influence and health delivery in rural Bangladesh.
Kaberi Gayen,Robert Raeside +1 more
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The higher the degree of centrality of a woman in her social network, the less likely it is that she will experience Neonatal death, and the experience of neonatal death is significantly associated with the type of assistance she obtained at giving birth.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2007-09-01. It has received 51 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social network & Normative social influence.read more
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Social network changes and life events across the life span: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: A meta-analysis on age-related social network changes and the effects of life events on social networks using 277 studies with 177,635 participants from adolescence to old age shows patterns of normative social network development that are consistent with the view that a portion of normative, age- relatedsocial network changes are due to normative, Age-related life events.
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Measurement of social capital in relation to health in low and middle income countries (LMIC): a systematic review.
TL;DR: Cognitive constructs of social capital, namely trust, social cohesion and sense of belonging had a positive association towards measured health outcome in majority of the studies.
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Women’s social networks and birth attendant decisions: Application of the Network-Episode Model
TL;DR: Results suggest that the structural properties of networks did not add to explanatory value but instead network content or the perceived advice of network members add significantly to the explanation of variation in service use.
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Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh.
Kaberi Gayen,Robert Raeside +1 more
TL;DR: The strong association of the social network members' encouragement of contraception and the significance over both in-degree and out-degree centrality provides further confirmation that immediate networkMembers' attitude is important to explain current contraceptive use of women in rural Bangladesh.
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Social network- and community-level influences on contraceptive use: evidence from rural Poland
Heidi Colleran,Ruth Mace +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that the contraceptive behaviour of friends and family is more influential than are women's own characteristics and that community level characteristics additionally influence contraceptive use, and a comparative multilevel framework is needed to understand these dynamics.
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