Population policies and women’s nutrition: a study on six rural communities in Chiapas, México
Abstract
This work set out to explore the relationship between the official
family planning discourse which
contends that limiting the number
of children favors health and the nutritional status of women. The
objective was to evaluate whether the use of contraceptives has a
positive impact on their well-being. To answer this question, we
drew upon data collected in six rural communities of Chiapas that
are broadly covered by family planning programs. We classified
said communities according to the productive activities they
perform (if they are for self-consumption or for the market) and
of the participation of women in them. The nutritional status of
women did not significantly correlate with their number of
children, neither with lactations’ duration or birth spacing
intervals. Socioeconomic factors of the household groups (not of
the communities), as well as those of women in particular, were
the main determinants of their nutritional status. Using the
maternal depletion syndrome as an explanation of the nutritional
status of mothers, and as an argument for family planning
programs is inadequate if the socioeconomic and gender conditions
of mothers are not considered.
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