Egyptian women’s Perceptions regarding health and reproductive health related issues
National Council for Women launched the national strategy for women empowerment in 2017. One of the strategy pillars was women social empowerment that focused on women health and education. The 4th pillar of the strategy, women protection, focused on protecting women from early marriage, FGM and all types of violence against women. The strategy aims to decrease the maternal mortality ratio, increase women’s life expectancy, eliminating early marriage and FGM.
Society culture, values and preferences and the available services are the most factors that affect women’s health and reproductive health. The objective of this paper is to explore women rating for the health and reproductive health services they get and the values that control their attitudes towards a set of reproductive health issues.