ArticleInternational journal of MCH and AIDS2019
Decision Making Autonomy and Maternal Healthcare Utilization among Nigerian Women.
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- The Impact of Women's Agency on Accessing and Using Maternal Healthcare Services: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Women decision-making autonomy on maternal health service and associated factors in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
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- Decoding fertility behaviour of married women in Zambia: A multipronged analysis of bio-demographic, socio-economic and intermediate factors.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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- Women's autonomy, neonatal, infant and under-five mortality in the Upper East Region of Ghana.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- Is there a link between the autonomy of women and maternal healthcare utilization in Nigeria? A cross-sectional survey.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Influence of women's decision-making autonomy on antenatal care utilisation and institutional delivery services in Nigeria: evidence from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2018.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
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- Spatial clusters distribution and modelling of health care autonomy among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia: spatial and mixed-effect logistic regression analysis.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Sexual and reproductive health services in universal health coverage: a review of recent evidence from low- and middle-income countries.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2020Review
- Women's Empowerment as a Mitigating Factor for Improved Antenatal Care Quality despite Impact of 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesLow assess to ante-natal care (ANC) services continue to pose a major public health challenge leading to high maternal mortality rates in developing countries. Non-utilization of ANC services among about a quarter of Nigerian women of reproductive age remains a major concern in the actualization of Sustainable Development Goals. Considering the complexity of healthcare utilization in Nigeria, the relationship between a particular health care utilization pattern and women autonomy has not been fully examined. This study examines the patterns of women autonomy and their relationships with ANC utilization in Nigeria.
methodsThis was a cross-sectional analysis of the 2013 nationally representative data from the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Factor analysis/score were used to construct women autonomy index, while chi-square and logistic regression were used to establish the relationships between the response and exposure variables.
resultsThere is a strong relationship between women decision making autonomy status and ANC services among Nigeria women. The odds of utilizing ANC services among women with more decision making autonomy were significantly 3.79 higher than among women with low decision-making autonomy. The use of ANC increases as age, education and wealth status of respondents increase. CONCLUSIONS AND GLOBAL HEALTH IMPLICATIONS: These results indicate that women autonomy is undoubtedly a major determinant of ANC utilization in Nigeria.
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