Katherine Hay, Lotus McDougal, Valerie Percival, Sarah Henry et al.
Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities are replicated and reinforced in health systems, contributing to gender inequalities in health. In this Series paper, we explore how to address all three through recognition and then with disruptive solutions. We used intersectional feminist theory to...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman, Melanie Rusch
BACKGROUND: Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage <18 years) globally. However, in South Asia, where the majority of girl child marriages occur, substantial improvements in girl education have not corresponded to equivalent reductions in child marr...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman
This study examines the effects of number and sex of siblings on malnutrition of boys and girls under-5 in South Asia. Cross-sectional analyses were conducted on Demographic and Health Surveys data on children under-5 in Bangladesh (N = 7,861), India (N = 46,655) and Nepal (N = 2,475). Data were poo...
McClendon Ka, Lotus McDougal, Sankari Ayyaluru, Yenework Belayneh et al.
This brief documents CARE’s Tipping Point project and how it encouraged men and boys to take up tasks that are not typical for their gender. It offers tips on how to replicate this approach in your own work. In rural communities in Bangladesh’s Sunamgank district household chores take up much of wom...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Elizabeth Reed, Jay G. Silverman
OBJECTIVE: To assess associations between marital violence and type of contraception among women in South Asia. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses were conducted using marital violence data collected during the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys from Bangladesh (n=3665), India (n=56357), and ...
Lotus McDougal, Melanie Rusch, Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj
The continuum of care (CoC) is a fundamental approach to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health policy and programs, but linkages along the CoC are inadequately understood. This article assesses linkages in reproductive and maternal health (RMH) services in Bangladesh using the 2011 Bangl...
Lotus McDougal
Background : Each year, an estimated 287,000 women and 3 million newborns in low and middle income countries die of largely preventable causes. Global organizations have adopted a continuum of care model to mitigate these deaths, in which health interventions are conceptualized as a continuous strea...