Seeking women's voices: Setting the context for women's health interventions in two rural counties in Yunnan, China

Wong, Glenn; Li, Virginia C.; Burris, Mary Ann; Xiang, Yueping

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)00430-2

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“…Yet, it contains a number of important findings. For instance, like the women studied by other scholars, our participants underscored the importance of maternal health [9,19,20]. They recognized healthy mothers and women to be key to the wellbeing of children, households, and communities; described their communities as impoverished and characterized by very high levels of maternal mortality and morbidity; and were knowledgeable about the maternal health problems which face women in their community.…”

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Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya

Izugbara

Ngilangwa

2010

BMC Women's Health

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BackgroundThe link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women's views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes.MethodSecondary analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews data with women in two slums in Nairobi, Kenya.ResultsUrban poor women in Nairobi associate poverty with adverse maternal outcomes. However, their accounts and lived experiences of the impact of poverty on maternal outcomes underscore dynamics other than those typically stressed in the extant literature. To them, poverty primarily generates adverse maternal outcomes by exposing women to exceedingly hard and heavy workloads during pregnancy and the period surrounding it; to intimate partner violence; as well as to inhospitable and unpleasant treatment by service providers.ConclusionsPoverty has wider and more intricate implications for maternal outcomes than are acknowledged in extant research. To deliver their expected impact, current efforts to promote better maternal outcomes must be guided by a more thorough perspective of the link between women's livelihoods and their health and wellbeing.

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Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya

Izugbara

Ngilangwa

2010

BMC Women's Health

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“…Within the theme of institutional determinants of reproductive health, three specific issues emerged: lack of integration of family planning with maternal/child health service provisions, high prevalence of RTIs and Iatrogenic causes, and lack of access to reproductive health knowledge in high risk groups. Such analytical method has also been used in other published qualitative studies [25,11].…”

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“…Gender inequality was deeply embedded in the patrilineal and patriarchal culture that valued men more than women and that contributed to their low socio-economic position [8][9][10], which in turn impact on their health status [11,12]. Previous studies in some regions of Yunnan have reported an association between women's status and reproductive health seeking behaviours.…”

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“…Far fewer studies on reproductive health in China and Yunnan have been published internationally. Our systematic electronic literature search in English databases identified four articles that addressed institutional barriers in accessing reproductive health services [15][16][17][18], and four papers related gender to reproductive health outcomes [11,12,19,20] [21][22][23].…”

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Women's status, institutional barriers and reproductive health care: A case study in Yunnan, China

Tian

Zhang

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Health Policy

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“…Yunnan province is situated in the south‐west of China and has a population of 42.88 million, with 76.64% living in rural areas 18 . Poverty, especially in rural areas, is the biggest challenge facing the province and causes various health problems among the population 15,19 , 20 . In addition to poverty, mountainous geography in many rural areas shapes the unfavorable health environment that puts older adults at a greater disadvantage.…”

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Comparison of health services use by Chinese urban and rural older adults in Yunnan province

Chi

Kai-ti³

et al. 2006

Geriatrics Gerontology Int

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Background: This article examines and compares the pattern of determinants of health services use between Chinese older adults residing in urban and rural areas of Yunnan province, China. Methods:Data from the Sample Survey on Aged Population in Urban/Rural China (SSAPUR) are used to compare the patterns of determinants for both physician visit and hospitalization between the urban and rural respondents. Andersen's health service utilization model was adopted as a conceptual framework.Results: Findings revealed that different patterns of determinants in physician visits and hospitalization existed among the two groups, implying that different barriers in health access are faced. The financial barrier was a prominent factor faced by urban elders in access to both physician visits and hospitalization, while rural elders encountered physical barriers in addition to financial difficulty when accessing health care. Conclusion:Study of the elderly population in Yunnan province helps to contrast the differences in health service use between urban and rural elders, which would shed light on possible focus in health policy-making and resource allocation to tackle the different health access barriers.

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Seeking women's voices: Setting the context for women's health interventions in two rural counties in Yunnan, China

Cited by 31 publications

References 18 publications

Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya

Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya

Women's status, institutional barriers and reproductive health care: A case study in Yunnan, China

Comparison of health services use by Chinese urban and rural older adults in Yunnan province

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