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Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya
BACKGROUND: The link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women's views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes. METHOD: Secondary analy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21122118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-10-33 |
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author | Izugbara, Chimaraoke O Ngilangwa , David P |
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description | BACKGROUND: The link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women's views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes. METHOD: Secondary analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews data with women in two slums in Nairobi, Kenya. RESULTS: Urban poor women in Nairobi associate poverty with adverse maternal outcomes. However, their accounts and lived experiences of the impact of poverty on maternal outcomes underscore dynamics other than those typically stressed in the extant literature. To them, poverty primarily generates adverse maternal outcomes by exposing women to exceedingly hard and heavy workloads during pregnancy and the period surrounding it; to intimate partner violence; as well as to inhospitable and unpleasant treatment by service providers. CONCLUSIONS: Poverty has wider and more intricate implications for maternal outcomes than are acknowledged in extant research. To deliver their expected impact, current efforts to promote better maternal outcomes must be guided by a more thorough perspective of the link between women's livelihoods and their health and wellbeing. |
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spelling | pubmed-30148662011-01-05 Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya Izugbara, Chimaraoke O Ngilangwa , David P BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The link between poverty and adverse maternal outcomes has been studied largely by means of quantitative data. We explore poor urban Kenyan women's views and lived experiences of the relationship between economic disadvantage and unpleasant maternal outcomes. METHOD: Secondary analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews data with women in two slums in Nairobi, Kenya. RESULTS: Urban poor women in Nairobi associate poverty with adverse maternal outcomes. However, their accounts and lived experiences of the impact of poverty on maternal outcomes underscore dynamics other than those typically stressed in the extant literature. To them, poverty primarily generates adverse maternal outcomes by exposing women to exceedingly hard and heavy workloads during pregnancy and the period surrounding it; to intimate partner violence; as well as to inhospitable and unpleasant treatment by service providers. CONCLUSIONS: Poverty has wider and more intricate implications for maternal outcomes than are acknowledged in extant research. To deliver their expected impact, current efforts to promote better maternal outcomes must be guided by a more thorough perspective of the link between women's livelihoods and their health and wellbeing. BioMed Central 2010-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3014866/ /pubmed/21122118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-10-33 Text en Copyright © 2010 Izugbara and Ngilangwa ; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<url>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</url>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Izugbara, Chimaraoke O Ngilangwa , David P Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title | Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title_full | Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title_fullStr | Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title_full_unstemmed | Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title_short | Women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in Nairobi, Kenya |
title_sort | women, poverty and adverse maternal outcomes in nairobi, kenya |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21122118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-10-33 |
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