The Influence Of Women Empowerment On Under-five Mortality In Ethiopia

The main objective of this study is to investigate the influence of women empowerment on underfive mortality in Ethiopia for children born five years preceding 2016. The EDHS 2016 surveyrnconducted by central statistical agency was the source of data for analysis. This study adoptedrnthe Mosley and Chen (1984) approach to analyze the effect of women’s empowerment on underfive mortality. Births that occurred in the five years preceding EDHS 2016 survey were analyzedrnin relation to the survival of the child and women empowerment dimensions such as women’srndecision making, women’s self-esteem and women’s freedom of mobility. Other independentrnvariables namely; environmental, socio-economics, bio-demographic and healthcare were usedrnas control variables. Binary logistic analyses were used to determine how each of therncomponents of women’s empowerment affects under-five mortality after controlling for therneffects of other factors. The study reveals that under-five mortality was significantly associatedrnwith the two women’s empowerment dimensions namely; women’s decision making index andrnwomen’s self-esteem index. Women’s decision making power is inversely related to under-fiverndeaths while women’s self-esteem has direct positive association with under-five deaths.

Get Full Work

Report copyright infringement or plagiarism