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Place Matters: Community Level Effects of Women’s Autonomy on Ethiopian Children’s Immunization Status

Authored by:

Ebot, J.O.

Full Citation:

Ebot, J.O. 2014. Place Matters: Community Level Effects of Women’s Autonomy on Ethiopian Children’s Immunization Status. African Population Studies. 28(2).

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Additional key concepts from this publication:

Empowering women can lead to greater rates of vaccination among children.

Key Evidence: The level of women’s community-level autonomy is associated with an increased number of children immunized above and beyond that which is seen with individual-level women’s autonomy. These results indicate that empowering women within households not only improves the individual mother’s children’s health, but also serves to improve the lives of other children within the community.

From the VoICE editors: This analysis is from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey that investigated the relationship between individual- and community-levels of women’s autonomy and children’s immunization status.