The Women's Health Care Empowerment Model as a Catalyst for Change in Developing Countries.

Health Care Women Int

d Department of Medicine and Basic Science , Loma Linda UniversitySchool of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda , California , USA.

Published: July 2016

Women's empowerment has been attempted through a number of different fields including the realms of politics, finance, and education, yet none of these domains are as promising as health care. Here we review preliminary work in this domain and introduce a model for women's empowerment through involvement in health care, titled the "women's health care empowerment model." Principles upon which our model is built include: acknowledging the appropriate definition of empowerment within the cultural context, creating a women's network for communication, integrating local culture and tradition into training women, and increasing the capability of women to care for their children and other women.

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