Association between women's empowerment and fertility preferences in Ghana.

Autor: Dadzie LK; Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.; Medical Social Welfare, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Ghana.; School of Justice, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia., Yengnone H; Kumasi Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana., Frimpong JB; Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.; Department of Kinesiology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA., Agbaglo E; Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana., Seidu AA; Centre for Gender and Advocacy, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana.; College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, QLD 4811, Australia., Ahinkorah BO; School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; REMS Consultancy Services, Sekondi Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International health [Int Health] 2024 Sep 05; Vol. 16 (5), pp. 512-522.
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihae043
Abstrakt: As Ghana has embraced the concept of women's empowerment as a vital tool for sustainable development, it has become crucial to evaluate the role that women's empowerment plays in the fertility preferences of married and cohabiting women in the country. The study's objective was to examine the association between women's empowerment, the ideal number of children and women's ability to have their desired number of children. This cross-sectional study used data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. Both Poisson and binary logistic regression analyses were carried out. Women who had justification for wife-beating (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 0.98 [95% confidence interval {CI} 0.96 to 0.99]) and those who were autonomous (IRR 0.94 [95% CI 0.93 to 0.95]) had lower rates of having the ideal number of children. Moreover, women who had justification for wife-beating (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.25 [95% CI 1.13 to 1.39]) and those who were involved in decision-making (aOR 1.31 [95% CI 1.19 to 1.44]) had higher odds of having the ability to have the desired number of children. However, autonomous women (aOR 0.78 [95% CI 0.71 to 0.86]) had lower odds of having the ability to have the desired number of children. Significant associations were found between women's empowerment (women's attitude towards justification for wife-beating, autonomy), an ideal number of children and the ability to have the desired number of children. These findings present target areas for policies and interventions aimed at determining Ghanaian women's fertility preferences and empowering them.
(© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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