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The Effect of Women Empowerment and Child Health Status in Rural Regions of India

Komal Diwedi

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In the current paper, Women's empowerment and its relationship to child health outcomes have been investigated in rural India. The importance of women is though widely acclaimed, the issues relating to their control over income and its outcomes on children’s health, nutrition and education have not received much attention in the empirical literature. The study finds that both males and females participate in earning income in rural India, but with an additional illiterate female worker a household realizes more than 7 percent higher income from activities in rural areas. The influence of women's decision-making autonomy on the child health practices appears to be paramount for every child's well-being and for their healthy growth and development. Descriptive and multivariate analysis were employed in order to establish a relationship between of women's empowerment indicator and child health outcomes. Together with these events of empowerment and child health status, we similarly measured their relationship with some of the socio economic and background characteristics of women, men and children. The results obtained in the study revealed that there is a strong and positive influence of the active participation of women in making decisions in the household on their children's health status.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrrpd.v2i2.251

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