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Capability and Health Functioning in Ethiopian Households
1Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Social Indicators Research
|April 26, 2011
Summary
Women's health functionings in Ethiopia are linked to household bargaining power and decision-making. Improving health may require changes in household decision-making patterns for better outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Health Economics
- Development Studies
- Public Health
Background:
- The capability approach provides a framework for understanding well-being beyond income.
- Health functionings are crucial indicators of individual well-being and societal development.
- Understanding factors influencing women's health is vital in low-income settings like Ethiopia.
Purpose of the Study:
- To empirically operationalize capability approach concepts in the Ethiopian context.
- To investigate the relationship between conversion factors, capability inputs, and women's health functionings.
- To examine the role of household bargaining power and decision-making in women's health outcomes.
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from a representative Ethiopian household survey.
- Applied empirical operationalization of the capability approach.
- Developed a model to assess the impact of decision-making on health functionings.
Main Results:
- Women's health functionings demonstrated responsiveness to household bargaining power conversion factors and capability inputs.
- A complex, non-linear relationship was observed between women's decision-making power and health functionings.
- Women with greater decision-making power were not consistently associated with better health outcomes.
Conclusions:
- Household bargaining power and specific capability inputs significantly influence women's health functionings.
- Interventions aimed at improving women's health should consider the nuanced role of decision-making power.
- Modifying household decision-making patterns presents a potential pathway to enhance women's health functioning.
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