Women Autonomy in Health Care Decision Making and Associated Factors Among Postpartum Women in Southern Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Women's autonomy in healthcare decision‐making is crucial for improving maternal and child health. Despite its importance, there is limited evidence on autonomous healthcare decision making particularly in postpartum women. Thus, this study aimed to assess the prevalence of postpartum women's autonomy in healthcare decision making and its associated factors in Chencha town, Gamo zone, southern Ethiopia.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Health Science Reports

• Publication date

  2024-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/hsr2.70245PMID 39659820PMCID 11628633
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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