Advancing gender equity in primary health care: Lessons from integrating gender-responsive strategies into service delivery in Ethiopia
Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh e outros, 2026 · PLOS Global Public Health
Participatory learning and action groups and male engagement in primary health care increased women's agency by 13.6 percentage points in agrarian Ethiopia.
Estimativa · Women's agency composite index (rescaled 0-100), percentage points
13,6 [9,65; 18,0]
percentage points
p < 0.001
- Desenho
- Diferenças em diferenças. Quasi-experimental difference-in-differences using before-and-after household surveys with intervention and comparison areas
- População
- Women aged 15–49 years in agrarian woredas of Ethiopia surveyed in 2023 and 2025
Onde está o número
Results > Empowered women and communities; Results, subsection 'Empowered women and communities', paragraph 4
This yielded a significant DiD effect of +13.6 percentage points (95% CI: 9.65–17.95; p < 0.001).
Contexto
What changed: Implementation of participatory women's learning and action groups, male engagement activities, and gender-responsive primary care standards. Comparison: Controlled before-and-after comparison areas receiving standard primary care services. Limits: Quasi-experimental non-randomized allocation, self-reported composite agency index, and effects did not reach statistical significance in pastoral areas.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInstituições e governança
- TipoParticipação social
- EixoIgualdade de gênero
MAGI só cita evidência deste instrumento
Lugares do estudo
- Ethiopia · País · ET
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23