Material deprivation and unemployment affect coercive sex among young people in the urban slums of Blantyre, Malawi: A multi-level approach

نویسندگان

  • Mphatso Kamndaya
  • Lawrence N. Kazembe
  • Jo Vearey
  • Caroline W. Kabiru
  • Liz Thomas
چکیده

We explore relations among material deprivation (measured by insufficient housing, food insecurity and poor healthcare access), socio-economic status (employment, income and education) and coercive sex. A binary logistic multi-level model is used in the estimation of data from a survey of 1071 young people aged 18-23 years, undertaken between June and July 2013, in the urban slums of Blantyre, Malawi. For young men, unemployment was associated with coercive sex (odds ratio [OR]=1.77, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.09-3.21) while material deprivation (OR=1.34, 95% CI: 0.75-2.39) was not. Young women in materially deprived households were more likely to report coercive sex (OR=1.37, 95% CI: 1.07-2.22) than in non-materially deprived households. Analysis of local indicators of deprivation is critical to inform the development of effective strategies to reduce coercive sex in urban slums in Malawi.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Practice of Epidemiology Development and Validation of a Global Positioning System–based “Map Book” System for Categorizing Cluster Residency Status of Community Members Living in High-Density Urban Slums in Blantyre, Malawi

A significant methodological challenge in implementing community-based cluster-randomized trials is how to accurately categorize cluster residency when data are collected at a site distant from households. This study set out to validate a map book system for use in urban slums with no municipal address systems, where classification has been shown to be inaccurate when address descriptions were ...

متن کامل

Development and Validation of a Global Positioning System–based “Map Book” System for Categorizing Cluster Residency Status of Community Members Living in High-Density Urban Slums in Blantyre, Malawi

A significant methodological challenge in implementing community-based cluster-randomized trials is how to accurately categorize cluster residency when data are collected at a site distant from households. This study set out to validate a map book system for use in urban slums with no municipal address systems, where classification has been shown to be inaccurate when address descriptions were ...

متن کامل

Systematic Review of Studies on Slums (1996-2017)

Expended Abstract Introduction: With the expeditios growth of urban population in developing countries, slums as a social predicament and problem has impeded the urban management of these countries. From this viewpoint, and by doing multiple researche studies, the researchers of different courses in Iran have tried to survey the grounds of formation and growth of this phenonmenon as well as it...

متن کامل

Systematic Review of Studies on Slums (1996-2017)

Expended Abstract Introduction: With the expeditios growth of urban population in developing countries, slums as a social predicament and problem has impeded the urban management of these countries. From this viewpoint, and by doing multiple researche studies, the researchers of different courses in Iran have tried to survey the grounds of formation and growth of this phenonmenon as well as it...

متن کامل

Determinants of Deprivation Among Part–time Cassava Farming Households in the Humid Tropic

As cost of living rises and people’s wages / salaries do not cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being practiced by different people as a food security strategy from vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing incomes and improving well-be...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 33  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015