Motivation medical students in the Ramathibodi Community Health Program.

abstract：:In 1980, a study to determine interest in and access to sterilization for females was initiated at two Ministry of Health hospitals in Honduras. Results of the baseline study showed that 42 percent of women desiring sterilization from the Tegucigalpa hospital and 21 percent from the San Pedro Sula hospital had had a t...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Janowitz B,Nunez J,Covington DL,Colven C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal mortality and morbidity estimates in Nigeria continue to be dramatically high largely because maternal services, especially in rural areas, are often deficient and inappropriate to women's situations. The Safe Motherhood Project in Zone A examined the pregnancy-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices of c...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Okafor CB,Rizzuto RR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, age- and parity-specific birth data were used to estimate maternal mortality rates for 1982-83 at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Overall, 60 maternal deaths occurred during pregnancy or within 42 days after pregnancy termination, and four pregnancy-related deaths occurred more than 42 d...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Mhango C,Rochat R,Arkutu A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mexico National Survey on Fertility and Health was national in scope. Data was collected from 7786 households and complete interviews conducted with 9310 women aged 15-49. Field work took place between February and May, 1987. The size of the general population grew from 44.8 million in 1965 to 70.4 million in 1...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the World Fertility Survey of 1977-78, this paper examines how community characteristics influence completed fertility in Peru. The analysis shows that community characteristics do not condition (interact with) the effects of mother's education in determining completed fertility. Rather, the effects of...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Tienda M

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although experimental trials often identify optimal strategies for improving community health, transferring operational innovation from well-funded research programs to resource-constrained settings often languishes. Because research initiatives are based in institutions equipped with unique resources and staff capabi...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Awoonor-Williams JK,Feinglass ES,Tobey R,Vaughan-Smith MN,Nyonator FK,Jones TC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade has elapsed since a project was launched in Matlab, Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that contraceptive services can induce and sustain fertility decline in a rural traditional population. The demographic impact of this project has been pronounced, lending support to the view that supply-side policies can su...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Phillips JF,Simmons R,Koenig MA,Chakraborty J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Couples in rural areas of many Arab societies, including Egypt, have consistently reported strong preferences for having sons. However, these reported preferences are not always reflected in reproductive behavior. In 38 rural villages in Menoufia Governorate in Egypt, women's responses to a community-based contracepti...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Gadalla S,McCarthy J,Campbell O

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although models of high-quality family planning services for men exist in Latin America, few if any have been organized within the complex and resource-constrained national public health systems. This study provides evidence from the Santa Barbara project in southern Brazil showing how vasectomy was introduced into th...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Penteado LG,Cabral F,Díaz M,Díaz J,Ghiron L,Simmons R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, unmet need for family planning has remained high in Pakistan and gains in contraceptive prevalence have been small. Drawing upon data from a 2012 national study on postabortion-care complications and a methodology developed by the Guttmacher Institute for estimating abortion incidence, we estim...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sathar Z,Singh S,Rashida G,Shah Z,Niazi R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of abortion providers in Seoul in late 1977 reveals a threefold increase in the rate of abortion and a greater than threefold rise in the ratio of abortions to live births since 1970. The survey findings also show that the overwhelming proportion of these abortions are performed in private clinics, by obstetr...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Hong SB,Tietze C

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to concerns about the adverse consequences of rapid population growth, family planning programs have been implemented in many developing countries. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of this programmatic approach on long-range population growth. The result of a new and hypothetical popula...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Bongaarts J,Mauldin WP,Phillips JF

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of legal abortion in California appeared to affect California fertility in 1971 with a downward trend in both legitimate and illegitimate births. In 1972 legitimate birth rates continued to fall as rapidly as in 1971 but illegitimacy rates declined less rapidly. Unmarried women continued to be the d...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sklar J,Berkov B

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a 1974 survey of 6,692 Bogota women aged 15-49 conducted by the Colombian Association for Population Studies show that, in the last decade, approval of family planning practice increased 34 percent, contraceptive practice nearly doubled, and fertility declined by over 45 percent. Life-table analysis sho...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Bailey J,Measham C,Umana M

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper evaluates a study fielded in Bangladesh in 1975 to test the hypothesis that ubiquitous availability of pills and condoms in a rural, traditional, noncontracepting population would increase contraceptive use and reduce fertility. Treatment and comparison areas were designated in Matlab, an area with accurate...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Stinson WS,Phillips JF,Rahman M,Chakraborty J

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family planning progress in Singapore during 1972 is reviewed. The Singapore Family Planning and Population Board launched its most intensive family planning campaign in July 1972. A primary objective of the campaign was to promote both male and female sterilizations. Stronger social disincentives to discourage lar...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Kee WF,Lee AS

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have documented the determinants of sexual behavior among adolescents in less-developed countries, yet relatively little is known about the influence of social contexts such as school and neighborhood. Using two waves of data from a school-based longitudinal survey conducted in Malawi from 2011-13, th...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Kim J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of surveys from Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Jamaica, and Senegal suggests that the requirement that women seeking hormonal contraception and IUDs should present for family planning services when menstruating represents a significant but unrecognized barrier to contraceptive access. Non-menstruating clients are i...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Stanback J,Thompson A,Hardee K,Janowitz B

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from a panel survey of a representative probability sample of Russian households, we examine how individual traits, locality, and "sex-event context" are associated with condom use in contemporary Russia. At the individual level, age has negative effects and measures of risk orientation have positive effect...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Gerber TP,Berman D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A qualitative study of pregnancy among schoolgirls in a small town in Burkina Faso was conducted that described the situation of pregnant students and their motherhood, their social environment, and the situation of their children. The analysis of findings revealed four main factors that influenced students' pregnanci...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Görgen R,Maier B,Diesfeld HJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews field experiences with provision of family planning services in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs in ten countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Family planning is a standard component of most antenatal care and maternal-child health programs within which PMTCT prog...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Rutenberg N,Baek C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveys dealing with abortion in Latin America have provided useful information despite problems in the collection and use of the data. Considerations that should be taken into account in designing abortion surveys and using the resultant information have been discussed here. Special attention has been paid to the nee...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Gaslonde Sainz S

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article compares the ethical pivot points in debates over nonprescription access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States. These include women's right to be informed about the contraceptive method and its mechanism of action, pharmacists' conscientious objection concerning the dispensing o...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Wynn LL,Erdman JN,Foster AM,Trussell J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the countries of South Asia, Sri Lanka, with a birth rate of 26 per 1,000, has achieved by far the lowest fertility level. The research reported here shows that at least half of all fertility control there is still practiced by means other than those offered by the national family planning program. This paper re...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Caldwell J,Gaminiratne KH,Caldwell P,de Silva S,Caldwell B,Weeraratne N,Silva P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of magazine advertising on vasectomy acceptance was tested in São Paulo, Brazil. Four advertisements ran for ten weeks in eight magazines. Clinic performance doubled during the campaign and stabilized at 54 percent higher than baseline. The advertisements selectively attracted the target audience without br...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Foreit KG,de Castro MP,Franco EF

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within developing countries, our understanding of reproductive inequality-how fertility is distributed within a population-has been shaped largely by studies of fertility differentials, a practical but partial-information measure. In this study, we examine whether exclusive reliance on differentials biases this unders...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Giroux SC,Eloundou-Enyegue PM,Lichter DT

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the patterns and determinants of maternal health care utilization in Jordan, using data from the Jordan Fertility and Family Health Survey of 1983. The study focuses on the 2,949 women who had a child in the five years preceding the survey. Through multivariate analyses of differentials in the ut...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Obermeyer CM,Potter JE

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accessible and quality reproductive health services are critical for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). After a decade of waning investment in family planning, interest and funding are growing once again. This article assesses whether introducing, removing, or changing user fees for contraception has an effect ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Korachais C,Macouillard E,Meessen B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Labor-intensive work is often a way of life for women living in rural areas of developing countries. The physical exertion involved in such work may result in poor health outcomes for mothers and infants when continued through pregnancy. Using longitudinal data from China, Mexico, and Tanzania, we examine the relation...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Peterman A,Ng SW,Palermo T,Lee IH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, considerable activity has occurred both in national policymaking for reproductive health and in research on the implementation of the Cairo Program of Action. This report considers how effectively a key component of the Cairo agen...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Mayhew SH,Lush L,Cleland J,Walt G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00