A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries

Burroway, Rebekah

doi:10.2753/ijs0020-7659420203

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“…Austin and Noble, 2014;Brady et al, 2007;Burroway, 2012;Heimer, 2007;Shircliff and Shandra, 2011). Indeed, the degree to which dimensions of female empowerment predict total malaria prevalence is quite robust, given that the malaria prevalence outcome variable is not gender-specific.…”

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Gendered vulnerabilities to a neglected disease: A comparative investigation of the effect of women’s legal economic rights and social status on malaria rates

Austin

Noble

Mejia

2014

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Although seldom noted in scholarly accounts, malaria represents a leading cause of death and underdevelopment in poor nations. Enormous cross-national variation in malaria rates across its endemic zones suggests the importance of large-scale factors in explaining comparative disease trends. While the biological vulnerability of women and children to malaria is often acknowledged, the literature has yet to investigate how gender inequalities contribute to patterns of malaria prevalence. Utilizing structural equation modeling on a sample of 90 less-developed nations and engaging insights from gender stratification perspectives, we consider the influence of both legal economic status and social dimensions of women's status on malaria rates. We find that women's legal economic status has an indirect relationship on malaria rates by enhancing women's social standing and strengthening general health provisions. The results suggest that addressing issues of gender inequality in poor nations is central to tackling this persistent pandemic.

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“…Burroway, 2012). Similarly, access to ownership of property, land, and loans signify economic resources and sources of autonomy for women that may give women and households the economic means to pay for malaria treatment and prevention practices such as bed nets.…”

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Gendered vulnerabilities to a neglected disease: A comparative investigation of the effect of women’s legal economic rights and social status on malaria rates

Austin

Noble

Mejia

2014

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Anderson and Eswaran (2009) stress that it is not income for women per se that is important for their autonomy, but rather having a livelihood that is not dependent on a husband. When women have control of property, land, and loans it broadens their economic power and their ability to exercise choice in a range of domains (Ashraf et al 2010, Burroway 2012). …”

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Women's Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012

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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to the conceptualization and measurement of democracy. It is co-hosted by the University of Gothenburg and University of Notre Dame. With a V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg that comprises almost ten staff members, and a project team across the world with four Principal Investigators, fifteen Project Managers, 30+ Regional Managers, 170 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 2,500 Country Experts, the V-Dem project is one of the largest-ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.Please address comments and/or queries for information to: AbstractThe V-Dem index on women's political empowerment provides information about women's civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation globally. Spanning from 1900 to 2012, three dimensions of empowerment, and over 170 countries, it is among the most comprehensive measures of women's empowerment available. This paper presents a conceptualization of women's political empowerment and provides an overview of the construction of the index and operationalization of its three sub-dimensions: Women's civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation. Compared to other indices measuring women's empowerment, such as the GDI, the GEM, the GII and the CIRI data on human rights, the V-Dem index allows more precise measurement and is superior in temporal scope and coverage of countries of the Global South. The paper demonstrates the benefits of this new index and its sub-dimensions through several empirical illustrations.3

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“…Rather, social measures and health care-related indicators represent some of the most powerful predictors in the overwhelming majority of comparative health studies (e.g., Austin 2013; Austin and Noble 2014;Brady et al 2007;Burroway 2010Burroway , 2012Chuang and Medina 2011;Marmot 2006;C. Indeed, fertility rates and access to education represent extremely influential predictors of a wide range of health measures, such as life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and HIV rates (e.g., Austin and Noble 2014;Brady et al 2007;Burroway 2010Burroway , 2012Marmot 2006;Shircliff and Shandra 2011;Wickrama and Lorenz 2002). Indeed, fertility rates and access to education represent extremely influential predictors of a wide range of health measures, such as life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and HIV rates (e.g., Austin and Noble 2014;Brady et al 2007;Burroway 2010Burroway , 2012Marmot 2006;Shircliff and Shandra 2011;Wickrama and Lorenz 2002).…”

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Dependency, Urban Slums, and the Forgotten Plagues

Austin

2014

Sociological Perspectives

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Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria remain leading causes of death in certain areas of the world system and directly contribute to persistent patterns in global inequality. I employ structural equation modeling for a sample of 135 nations to appropriately test for indirect and complex relationships among economic, social, and environmental indicators. The results demonstrate that economic dependency and environmental decline lead to increased urban slum populations in less developed nations, and that nations with larger urban slum populations have higher rates of TB and malaria. Important interrelationships also are evidenced among additional predictors, such as socio-health characteristics, economic development, and location in Sub-Saharan Africa. Overall, this research demonstrates that current epidemiological patterns in TB and malaria prevalence have important sociological underpinnings. Public policy should be directed toward addressing the social causes of these diseases, including improved access to schooling, health care, and other basic resources, especially in urban areas characterized by slum conditions.

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A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries

Cited by 33 publications

References 58 publications

Gendered vulnerabilities to a neglected disease: A comparative investigation of the effect of women’s legal economic rights and social status on malaria rates

Gendered vulnerabilities to a neglected disease: A comparative investigation of the effect of women’s legal economic rights and social status on malaria rates

Women's Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012

Dependency, Urban Slums, and the Forgotten Plagues

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