Alcohol Consumption Among Ghanaian Women of Child Bearing Age – What are the Correlates?

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2018-0010

E. Nketiah-Amponsah, Gloria Afful-Mensah, Samuel Ampaw, E. Codjoe

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Abstract

Abstract This paper examines the demographic and socio-economic correlates of alcohol consumption and drinking frequency among Ghanaian women aged 15-49 years. The study utilizes the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data, which remains the most recent DHS for studying the phenomenon in Ghana. Using logistic regression, our findings indicate that alcohol consumption among Ghanaian women is influenced by age, education, and wealth status. In addition, while health insurance ownership significantly affects alcohol consumption among urban women, employment status is reported to be a significant determinant among rural women. Results from the ordered logistic regression show that age, wealth status, pregnancy status, and place of residence are significant predictors of alcohol drinking frequency among Ghanaian women. Moreover, while secondary educational attainment is significant among urban women, primary educational attainment is significant among rural women. The study concludes that the predictors of alcohol consumption and drinking frequency among women of childbearing age in Ghana vary by place of residence (i.e., rural vs urban).

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加纳育龄妇女的饮酒量——相关因素是什么?

摘要:本文研究了15-49岁加纳妇女酒精消费和饮酒频率的人口统计学和社会经济相关性。这项研究利用了2008年加纳人口和健康调查数据，这仍然是国土安全部研究加纳这一现象的最新数据。使用逻辑回归，我们的研究结果表明，加纳妇女的酒精消费量受年龄、教育和财富状况的影响。此外，虽然拥有医疗保险对城市妇女的酒精消费有重大影响，但据报告，就业状况对农村妇女来说是一个重大决定因素。有序逻辑回归的结果显示，年龄、财富状况、怀孕状况和居住地是加纳妇女饮酒频率的重要预测因子。此外，中等教育程度在城市妇女中很重要，而初等教育程度在农村妇女中很重要。该研究的结论是，加纳育龄妇女饮酒量和饮酒频率的预测因素因居住地(即农村与城市)而异。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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0.30

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.