JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Linking Women’s Empowerment to Mental Health Symptoms: Population-Based Study
Abstract Background Mental health disorders represent a growing global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where women are disproportionately affected by social and structural inequalities. Although women’s empowerment has been increasingly recognized as a strategy to improve physical health, its relationship with mental health remains less well understood. Objective This study examined the association between women’s empowerment and mental health symptoms among ever-married women in Bangla …