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sj-pdf-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231181346 – Supplemental material for Effects of a Mentoring Program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and First-Generation Public Health Students
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231181346 for Effects of a Mentoring Program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and First-Generation Public Health Students by Stephanie Grilo, Monét Bryant, Samantha Garbers, Maggie Wiggin and Goleen Samari in Public Health Reports</p
Syrian Refugee Women's Health in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan and Recommendations for Improved Practice
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First birth and the trajectory of women’s empowerment in Egypt
No full textAbstract Background Women’s empowerment is often used to explain changes in reproductive behavior, but no consideration is given to how reproductive events can shape women’s empowerment over time. Fertility may cause changes in women’s empowerment, or they may be mutually influencing. Research on women’s empowerment and fertility relies on cross-sectional data from South Asia, which limits the understanding of the direction of association between women’s empowerment and fertility in other global contexts. This study uses two waves of a panel survey from a prominent Middle Eastern country, Egypt, to examine the trajectory of women’s empowerment and the relationship between first and subsequent births and empowerment over time. Methods Using longitudinal data from the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey, a nationally representative sample of households in Egypt, for 4660 married women 15 to 49 years old, multilevel negative binomial, ordinary least squares, and logistic regression models estimate women’s empowerment and consider whether a first and subsequent births are associated with empowerment later in life. Women’s empowerment is operationalized through four measures of agency: individual household decision-making, joint household decision-making, mobility, and financial autonomy. Results A first birth and subsequent births are significantly positively associated with all measures of empowerment except financial autonomy in 2012. Women who have not had a birth make 30% fewer individual household decisions and 14% fewer joint household decisions in 2012 compared to women with a first birth. There is also a positive relationship with mobility, as women with a first birth have more freedom of movement compared to women with no births. Earlier empowerment is also an important predictor of empowerment later in life. Conclusions Incorporating the influence of life events like first and subsequent births helps account for the possibility that empowerment is dynamic and that life course experiences shape women’s empowerment. This and the notion that empowerment builds over time helps portray women’s lives more completely, demonstrates the importance of empowerment early in the life course, and addresses issues of temporality in empowerment fertility research
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Women’s Empowerment and Contraceptive Method Use in Egypt
Get PDFEgypt’s fertility rate reached a 25-year high of 3.5 births per woman in 2014.It is assumed that women’s empowerment plays an important role in women’s choice of a specific contraceptive method. This research brief, by former PRC postdoctoral fellow Goleen Samari, found that use of long-acting methods fell in Egypt between 2005 and 2014, while use of short-acting methods increased. She also found that women’s empowerment increases the likelihood of contraceptive use in Egypt.Population Research Cente
‐19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States
No full text‘He supported me 100%’: Mexican-immigrant fathers, daughters, and adolescent sexual health
No full textParental Gender Expectations by Socioeconomic Status and Nativity: Implications for Contraceptive Use
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