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Personal Data:

Full Name: Mohamed Ali Hussein Abdel-Wahab Aboakrab

Nationality: Egyptian

 Sex: Male

Place of Birth: Beni-Suef, Egypt

Date of Birth: 1983, March 5^th

Marital Status: Married

Home address: Beni-Suef, Egypt.

Work address: Department of Statistics, Faculty of Politics and Economics, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Passport Number: A02603668

Phone:  01022545351 - 01129007100

E-mail: m3ali83@yahoo.com

                 mohamed.ali@eps.bsu.edu.eg

Master Title

Impact of Women's Empowerment on The Antenatal Health Care Utilization

Master Abstract

Impact of Women's Empowerment on The Antenatal Health Care Utilization Abstract Antenatal health care utilization is very important not only for mothers but also for babies because it is leading to reduce maternal and child mortality. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of women's empowerment indicators and other variables on antenatal care utilization. Using the descriptive and the multivariate analyses (the Logistic and the zero-inflated negative binomial regression) with data coming from the EDHS 2005, the study finds that women's empowerment affects the decision to go to receive antenatal care but it does not increase the number of antenatal care visits. Additionally, the results indicate that wealth index is considered to be the most important determinant of receiving antenatal care. Also, education made women receive antenatal care but it did not increase the number of antenatal care visits. Keywords: women's empowerment- antenatal care

PHD Title

Simultaneous Modeling for Women's Empowerment and Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt

PHD Abstract

Simultaneous Modeling for Women's Empowerment and Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt Women’s relative lack of decision-making power and their unequal access to employment, finances, education, basic health care, and other resources are considered to be the root causes of their ill-health and that of their children. The main purpose of this study is to examine the interactive relation between women’s empowerment and the use of maternal health care and whether women’s empowerment and receiving maternal care are simultaneously determined. The recursive bivariate probit model and structural equation modeling (SEM) are used to achieve this goal. The results of these models show that women’s empowerment and receiving maternal care are simultaneously determined. A simulation is carried out to explore to what extent the researchers can depend on the results of Recursive Bivariate Probit rather than SEM when the endogenous variable is qualitative. The results of the simulation indicate that the SEM model has bias and mean standard error less than the Recursive Bivariate Probit model; however the difference between SEM and Recursive Bivariate Probit model is downward at increasing sample size. Moreover, this study tries to examine the change in the effect of women’s characteristics, empowerment, availability and quality of health services on woman’s decision to use maternal health care between 2000 and 2008 utilizing Zero-inflated Negative Binomial Regression and Logistic regression. To achieve the goals of this study, indicators of women's empowerment, availability and quality of health services are constructed using factors analysis technique. The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data in 2000 and 2008 are used to achieve these assessments. The findings indicate that the utilization of maternal health care services is greatly improved from 2000 to 2008. Keywords: Women's Empowerment- Maternal Care - SEM