Year: 2001
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Indonesian women's power relative to that of their husbands is examined to determine how it affects use of prenatal and delivery care. Holding household resources constant, a woman's control over economic resources affects the couple's decision-making. Compared with a woman with no assets that she perceives as being her own, a woman with some share of household assets influences reproductive health decisions. Evidence suggests that her influence on service use also varies if a woman is better educated than her husband, comes from a background of higher social status than her husband's, or if her father is better educated than her father-in-law. Therefore, both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence use of services, and conceptualizing power as multidimensional is useful for understanding couples' behavior.
Source: Studies in Family Planning
Institutions: RAND Corporation, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1561837765