The influence of women empowerment on maternal and childcare use in Nigeria

Ahuru, Rolle Remi

doi:10.1080/20479700.2019.1688505

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“…Our findings complements other studies from Nigeria [2,7,11,28], other SSA countries [6,9,23] and Asian countries [8,10,29], which have reported several agencies of mothers' status to be associated with health-seeking-behaviour for children.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…However, the overall percentage was far below international recommendations. Cultural practices in Nigeria are largely patriarchal, meaning few women may have a say regarding their own health [2]. However, women who have the ability to decide on their own healthcare may equally be in position to do same for their children, seeking appropriate healthcare for them when such is required [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Being items measured on the same scale, both were aggregated. The values which range from minimum of 0 to maximum of 2 were grouped into three ordinal categories: low (0), substantial (1) and high (2).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Children in SSA countries were 15 times more susceptible than children in high income countries [1]. In Nigeria, underutilization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services accounts for the high rate of both maternal and child mortality [2]. The Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) shows that risk of under-five mortality is higher among children from poor and non-educated families [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies have shown that caregivers' decision-making ability and control over economic resources in the household are positively associated with both preventive (immunization) and curative (treatment of illness) efforts on morbidities in children less than five years of age [2,[8][9][10][11]. The fulcrum on which this argument rests is that mothers who have the ability to make major decisions within the household may equally have the ability to influence the wellbeing of their children [12,13].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mothers’ Healthcare Autonomy, Maternal-Health Utilization and Healthcare for Children under-3 Years: Analysis of the Nigeria DHS Data (2008–2018)

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Jiang

2020

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This study was designed to simultaneously examine if mothers’ personal healthcare autonomy within the household, and the level of their maternal-healthcare utilization, translates into better preventive (complete immunization) and curative (treatments for diarrhoea, fever and acute respiratory infection) efforts on morbidities in child healthcare. We analysed data pooled from three consecutive waves of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey: the surveys of 2008, 2013 and 2018. Using a multilevel logistic regression, we estimated the odds ratio for each of the outcome variables while adjusting for covariates. Findings revealed that mothers’ health autonomy is positively associated with child immunization and treatment of morbidities (except diarrhoea), a relationship moderated by the frequency of mothers’ exposure to media. Additionally, mothers’ healthcare utilization is positively associated with complete immunization, and all forms of morbidity treatment (except diarrhoea). Although the relationship between mothers’ healthcare-utilization and child immunization is not dependent on family wealth, however, the relationship between mothers’ healthcare utilization and treatment of morbidity is dependent. Policy effort should be geared towards stimulating mothers to seek appropriate and timely child healthcare and future studies could consider looking into the mediating role of paternal support in this relationship.

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