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Examining Women’s Agency, High Fertility and Maternal and Child Health in Tanzania

Tanzania Journal for Population studies and Development

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Title Examining Women’s Agency, High Fertility and Maternal and Child Health in Tanzania
 
Creator Maghimbi, Sam; University of Dar es Salaam
 
Description The paper considers why reproductive health has stalled in Tanzania. The individualwoman in Tanzania gives birth to many children (TFR = 5.2). The demographic andeconomic transition is slow and the most striking characteristics is poor and lowlyeducated women having many children. The patterns of mortality among girls andwomen (and men) are still characterized by a predominance of infectious diseases. Thismakes women’s agency in bringing social and economic development so important. Theargument is advanced that child-bearing will go down to replacement level and thewellbeing of women and children improve if women themselves become active agents ofchange or the dynamic promoters of social transformations that can alter their lives andthe lives of children and men. The fundamental changes required to bring this in Tanzaniais to put emphasis on the role of women’s agency. Some decline in infant and under-fivemortality is observed in Tanzania, but it is argued that there is still much space for furtherdecline in infant, under-five, and maternal mortality. It is further stated that there is muchspace to increase life expectancy by promoting active women’s agency.Keywords: fertility, women’s agency, maternal and child health, Tanzania, life expectancy
 
Publisher Tanzania Journal for Population studies and Development
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2019-05-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Identifier https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjpsd/article/view/2610
 
Source Tanzania Journal for Population studies and Development; Vol 23, No 1&2 (2016): TJPSD
 
Language en
 
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