Theory predicts that land ownership empowers women to avoid HIV acquisition by reducing their reliance on risky …. Using a sample of 5511 women working in the agricultural sector from the 1998, 2003 and 2008–09 Kenya Demographic and Health … Surveys, we examined the relationship between women's land ownership and participation in transactional sex, multiple sexual …

Overall birth experience is an important outcome of birth, and studies of psycho-social birth outcomes and women … on women’s birth experiences and perceptions of care in two freestanding midwifery units (FMU) and two obstetric units … cohort study, a postal questionnaire survey was undertaken. Two hundred and eighteen low-risk women in FMU care, admitted …

WaterGuard to pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in 2007. Follow-up surveys documented a sustained increase in WaterGuard … motivating women to adopt, sustain, or discontinue use. To provide context, interviews were also conducted with their friends … influenced women’s decisions to adopt, purchase, and continue using WaterGuard. First, positive, ongoing contacts with health …

levels of economic, cultural, and social capital that constitute women's social class membership are associated with BMI …

purpose of this study was to examine patterns of change over time in healthy eating behaviors in midlife and older women in … secondary analysis were from the Wellness for Women community-based trial. Women (N = 225) between the ages of 50–69 in rural … should be central components of interventions focused on healthy eating behavior in rural midlife and older women. …

.35; 95%CI 7.02–25.39) were the main predictors for IPV. We found a three-fold higher risk of IPV for women living in the Los … Altos de Chiapas region (ORA 3.01; 95%CI 1.88–4.79) compared with women in the Mayan region (reference category). Such … against women in the indigenous populations of Mexico. …

framing in eating disorders, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 50 US women with a history of eating disorders (half …

This paper focuses on the inclusion of women in the Moroccan labor markets and businesses through the role of higher … variable in relation to gender. It then analyzes the relationships between education and the inclusion of women in the labor … the inclusion of women in the labor market and in business creation. Schooling of women with higher education attainment …

Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a … span of 11 years—using the results of the July 15, 2002 and October 28, 2013 barangay elections, shows an increase of women …