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100	1	0	_aOrtigoza, Ana _eauthor _93129
700	1	0	_aBraverman, Ariela _eauthor _93130
700	1	0	_aHessel, Philipp _eauthor _93131
700	1	0	_aDi Cecco, Vanessa _eauthor _93132
700	1	0	_aFriche, Amélia Augusta _eauthor _93133
700	1	0	_aTeixeira Caiaffa, Waleska _eauthor _93134
700	1	0	_aDiez Roux, Ana V. _eauthor _92536
245	0	0	_aWomen's empowerment and infant mortality in Latin America: evidence from 286 cities
260			_bRoutledge, _c2021-04-22.
500			_a/pmc/articles/PMC7614198/
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520			_aLevels of women's empowerment (WE) can contribute to differences in infant mortality rates (IMRs) across cities. We used a cross-sectional multilevel study to examine associations of WE with IMRs across 286 cities in seven Latin American countries. We estimated IMRs for 2014-2016 period and combined city socioeconomic indicators into factors reflecting living conditions and service provision. WE was operationalized: (1) in cities, by using scores for women's labor force participation (WLFP) and educational attainment among women derived from education and employment indicators disaggregated by sex; (2) in countries, by including a scale of enforcements of laws related to women's rights. We estimated adjusted percent differences in IMRs associated with higher WE scores across all cities and stratified by country GDP. We found substantial heterogeneity in IMRs and WE across cities. Higher WLFP was associated with lower IMRs. Higher women's educational attainment was associated with lower IMRs only in cities from countries with lower GDP. Poorer national enforcement of laws protecting women's rights was associated with higher IMRs in all countries. Women's empowerment could have positive implications for population health. Fostering women's socioeconomic development and girls' education should be part of strategies to reduce IMRs in cities of Global South.
540			_a© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
540			_ahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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690			_aOriginal Scholarship - Empirical _93135
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786	0		_nCities Health
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