Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Women’s autonomy in health decision-making and its effect on access to family planning services in Senegal in 2017: a propensity score analysis
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Women’s autonomy in health decision-making and its effect on access to family planning services in Senegal in 2017: a propensity score analysis
Do you wish to request the book?
Women’s autonomy in health decision-making and its effect on access to family planning services in Senegal in 2017: a propensity score analysis
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
Women’s autonomy in health decision-making and its effect on access to family planning services in Senegal in 2017: a propensity score analysis
2020
Overview
Background
The effect of women’s autonomy in decision-making for fertility control has been highlighted by research. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of women’s autonomy over decision-making regarding their health and access to family planning in Senegal in 2017.
Methods
The analyses in this study were carried out using data from the Senegal Demographic and Health Survey in 2017. The sample consisted of 8865 women aged 15–49. The propensity score-matching method was applied. Autonomy in health decision-making was considered the treatment variable. Matching was performed using confounding variables. The outcome variables were the current use of modern contraceptive methods and the existence of unmet needs. The common support condition had been met. The analysis was conducted using STATA.15 software.
Results
This study showed that 6.26% of women had decision-making autonomy in relation to their health. For 80.33% of the women, their husbands/partners made health-related decisions for them. Decision-making autonomy increased significantly with the age of the woman (
p
< 0.05). In addition, 15.24% of women were using a modern method of contraception. An estimated 26.2% of women had unmet needs. Propensity score matching split the women into two groups based on autonomy over decision-making for their health. After matching, there was no longer a significant difference between women who were autonomous with respect to their decision-making and those who were not autonomous with respect to their current use of a modern contraceptive method. On the other hand, there was a 14.42% reduction (
p
< 0.05) in unmet needs for family planning in the group of women who were autonomous with respect to their health decision-making.
Conclusion
Autonomy in health decision-making would reduce unmet needs among Senegalese women. These results show the importance of accounting for gender in health interventions for the accessibility of family planning services.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Adult
/ Autonomy
/ Autonomy of decision-making for health
/ Contraception - statistics & numerical data
/ Contraception Behavior - psychology
/ Contraception Behavior - statistics & numerical data
/ Family Planning Services - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data
/ Health Services Needs and Demand
/ Humans
/ Husbands
/ Matching
/ Medicine
/ Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
/ Senegal
/ Social determinants of health
/ Studies
/ Surveys
/ Vaccine
