SynthesisMaternal and child health journal2021
Women's Empowerment and Infant and Child Health Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.
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Early Life Diarrhoea Episode(s), Malnutrition, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Microbiome Trajectories From Birth Until 3 Years of Life ; The University of Zimbabwe Birth Cohort Study-2 (UZBCS-2)
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of women's empowerment with childhood immunisation coverage in South and Southeast Asia: meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys data from 11 countries.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- Women-led sustainable irrigation improved indicators of nutritional status in children from Northern Benin.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Trial
- Parental satisfaction with neonatal care in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria: a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Women empowerment and healthcare utilization for childhood illnesses: evidence from Ethiopia.International health · 2026Article
- Determinants of contraceptive use among married women in Rwanda: evidence from women's empowerment-related indicators in the 2019/2020 Demographic and Health Survey.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Assessing geographic variation in women's decision-making power across 720 districts in India, 2016-2021.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Examining maternal health literacy as a mediator of the relationship between social vulnerability and caregiving practices for improving infant development.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Rural-urban differentials in women empowerment and experience of under-five mortality among mothers in Nigeria: a Multiple Indicator Survey analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Geographic variation in women's empowerment: a multilevel analysis of India's National Family Health Survey 2021.Journal of global health · 2025Observational
- The Association of Food Security Status with Transactional Sex Engagement Among Female Adolescents Aged 15-24: Evidence from Cameroon.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- A qualitative study to explore mother's experiences of a family MUAC project in two provinces in South Africa.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Social determinants of health and hypertension screening among women in The Gambia: an evaluation of 2019-2020 demographic and health survey data.Journal of human hypertension · 2025Article
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- Attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health and rights and their associations with reproductive agency: a population-based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2024Article
- Using the Social-Ecological Model to Assess Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal in a Highly Religious Lower-Middle-Income Country.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Women's empowerment, modern energy, and demand for maternal health services in Benin.International journal of health economics and management · 2024Article
- Women's health and rights in the twenty-first century.Nature medicine · 2024Review
- Evaluating an immunization carpool service for women in rural areas for facilitating routine childhood immunizations in Pakistan -a feasibility study on acceptability, demand, and implementation.Journal of transport & health · 2024Article
- Diarrheal disease and associated factors among children aged 6 to 59 months in Oda Bultum District, Eastern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- High prevalence of zero-dose children in underserved and special setting populations in Ethiopia using a generalize estimating equation and concentration index analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionAlthough many studies have examined the relationship between women's empowerment and a wide range of health outcomes, the extent to which the different dimensions of empowerment influence children's health, and through which mechanisms and in what contexts, is limited in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this review is to systematically assess and examine studies that investigated the association between women's empowerment and children's health status in sub-Saharan Africa.
methodsA systematic review of the published literature is searched through PubMed, Google Scholar, Embase, Web of Science and Scopus databases focusing on different measures of women's empowerment and children's health outcomes. Inclusion criteria in the review are studies that are published in English; full and original articles; studies measuring at least one dimension of women's empowerment and children's health outcomes; and Sub-Saharan African context. Studies included in this review are articles published between the year 2000 and 2019. Studies were excluded if the source was a letter, editorial, review, commentary, abstracts without providing full information about the study.
resultsInitially 4718 citations were identified. Finally, 15 studies met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In general, the evidence suggests that women's empowerment at the household level is positively and statistically significantly associated with better children's health outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. The review also reveals that women's decision-making power or autonomy is the most common measure of women's empowerment employed by many studies.
conclusionsFuture related studies would benefit by incorporating additional aspects of women's empowerment and child health outcomes.
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