The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: development and validation of an index based on survey data.
Fernanda Ewerling,John Lynch,John Lynch,Cesar G. Victora,Anouka van Eerdewijk,Marcelo Tyszler,Aluísio J D Barros +6 more
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The index, named Survey-based Women's emPowERment index (SWPER), has potential to widen the research on women's empowerment and to give a better estimate of its effect on health interventions and outcomes.About:
This article is published in The Lancet Global Health.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 186 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Women's empowerment & Empowerment.read more
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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?
Geordan Shannon,Melanie Jansen,Kate Williams,Carlos F. Caceres,Angélica Motta,Aloyce Odhiambo,Alie Eleveld,Jenevieve Mannell +7 more
TL;DR: This Review presents a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender Equality in these fields matters in terms of health and social outcomes, and reflect on strategies to promote change.
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Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
Ties Boerma,Jennifer Harris Requejo,Cesar G. Victora,Agbessi Amouzou,Asha George,Irene Akua Agyepong,Carmen Barroso,Aluísio J D Barros,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Robert E. Black,Josephine Borghi,Kent Buse,Liliana Carvajal Aguirre,Mickey Chopra,Doris Chou,Yue Chu,Mariam Claeson,Bernadette Daelmans,Austen Davis,Jocelyn DeJong,Theresa Diaz,Shams El Arifeen,Fernanda Ewerling,Monica Fox,Stuart Gillespie,John Grove,Tanya Guenther,Annie Haakenstad,Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor,Sennen Hounton,Luis Huicho,Troy Jacobs,Safia S Jiwani,Youssouf Keita,Rajat Khosla,Margaret E Kruk,Taona Kuo,Catherine Kyobutungi,Ana Langer,Joy E Lawn,Hannah H. Leslie,Mengjia Liang,Blerta Maliqi,Alexander Manu,Honorati Masanja,Tanya Marchant,Purnima Menon,Allisyn C. Moran,Oscar J. Mujica,Devaki Nambiar,Kelechi Ohiri,Lois Park,George C Patton,Stefan Peterson,Ellen Piwoz,Kumanan Rasanathan,Anita Raj,Carine Ronsmans,Ghada Saad-Haddad,Mariam L Sabin,David S Sanders,Susan M Sawyer,Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam da Silva,Neha S. Singh,Kate Somers,Paul Spiegel,Hannah Tappis,Marleen Temmerman,Lara M. E. Vaz,Rajani Ved,Luis Paulo Vidaletti,Peter Waiswa,Fernando C. Wehrmeister,William Weiss,Danzhen You,Shehla Zaidi +75 more
TL;DR: Analysis of intervention coverage, equity, and drivers of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in the 81 Countdown countries suggests that available services in many countries are of poor quality, limiting the potential effect on RMNCH outcomes.
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Women’s empowerment in East Africa: Development of a cross-country comparable measure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda to test factor structure and measurement invariance of women's empowerment among married women ages 15-49.
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Is women's empowerment a pathway to improving child nutrition outcomes in a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program?: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso
TL;DR: It is found that improvements in women's empowerment in the domains of spousal communication, purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, and family planning decisions contributed to the program's impact on reducing wasting with the largest share being attributable to spoual communication.
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Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen
TL;DR: The authors examined variations in indicator construction using survey experiments undertaken in the context of transfer programs in Ecuador, Yemen, and Uganda and found that small variations can lead to meaningful differences in how women are ranked on decision-making, as well as change conclusions on whether programs have significant impacts on decisionmaking.
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