Determinants of reproductive change in a traditional society: evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh.

abstract：:Interviews wih women in six villages in India and with educated, working women selected to be trained as interviewers in five states, and evidence from formal studies are discussed to support the conclusions that (1) the low overall rates of contraceptive use in India are at least partly due to low levels of knowledge...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Basu AM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1988 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) collected data from 4107 households and conducted complete interviews with 4201 women ages 15-49 years. The 27 tables and charts in this article summarize findings of the DHS in the areas of fertility, family size preferences, contraceptive use, postpartum variabl...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) sexuality education curriculum. Our analysis interrogates variation in sub-national implementation. We conducted 52 interviews with persons knowledgeable about the curriculum in three states-Kano, Lagos, and Niger-and reviewed publications on FLHE. In K...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Kunnuji MON,Robinson RS,Shawar YR,Shiffman J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from 8,320 husbands'self reports for the 2006 Urban Health Survey, this article examines the prevalence of physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrated by husbands against their wives in Bangladesh and identifies risk markers associated with such violence. Of the men included in the sampl...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sambisa W,Angeles G,Lance PM,Naved RT,Curtis SL

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:This study analyzes longitudinal data from couples in rural Nepal to investigate the influence of spousal communication about family planning on their subsequent contraceptive use. The study expands current understanding of the communication-contraception link by (a) exploiting monthly panel data to conduct an event h...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Link CF

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Short birth intervals can have adverse consequences for maternal and infant outcomes. Optimal birth spacing is often presumed to be achieved through the practice of family planning and use of contraceptives, yet most of the available research does not address explicitly the contribution of contraceptive-method use to ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Yeakey MP,Muntifering CJ,Ramachandran DV,Myint Y,Creanga AA,Tsui AO

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:Using IN and IS scales that measure underlying family size and sex preferences, respectively, it is found that a majority of married women in a Bangladesh survey have preferences for very large families and for sons. While differences in underlying size preferences are related to age, age at 1st cohabitation, educati...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Ahmed NR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Completion of secondary school is increasingly viewed as a desirable life goal for young men and women in urban Kenya. Yet achieving this goal often conflicts with other key transitions to adulthood, such as becoming sexually active, marrying, having children, and finding employment. Drawing upon exceptionally rich li...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Clark S,Mathur R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing countries in recent years there has been a great expansion of public programs to provide modern means of fertility control. This paper is an effort to appraise the demographic impact of such programs through a comprehensive evaluation of the record. The paper briefly reviews the criticisms of such pr...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Freedman R,Berelson B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pakistan's high unmet need for contraception and low contraceptive prevalence remain a challenge, especially in light of the country's expected contribution to the FP2020 goal of expanding family planning services to an additional 120 million women with unmet need. Analysis of panel data from 14 Pakistani districts su...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Jain AK,Mahmood A,Sathar ZA,Masood I

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, female interviewers have been preferred to men for conducting fertility and family planning surveys. However, in West Africa, evidence for their superiority over male interviewers is mixed. In Nigeria, as part of a four-state pretest of the national family planning questionnaire, an experimental design ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Becker S,Feyisetan K,Makinwa-Adebusoye P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The ever-increasing prevalence of negative shocks experienced by poor, vulnerable households often induces extreme measures as ways to recover from the negative effects on income. Child marriage is one of the coping mechanisms households may use. This study examines whether young people in households that experience a...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Molotsky A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Should family planning programs put more effort into persuading couples to want smaller families or into helping women achieve their reproductive goals? Indeed, can family planning programs affect fertility preferences? Longitudinal data from Bangladesh collected from 1982 to 1993 show that women's desired family size...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Arends-Kuenning M,Hossain MB,Barkat-e-Khuda

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No studies show that IUDs destroy developing embryos at rates higher than those found in women who are not using contraceptives. Studies of early pregnancy factors have not shown statistically significant differences in transient levels of hCG between IUD and control groups, a sign of early abortion. The small, carefu...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sivin I

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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：: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：:A study of 500 abortion-seeking women in the San Francisco Bay area, in California, revealed that, although a majority of them had used contraceptives previously, only a minority had consistently used effective contraceptives. This paper presents a theory of contraceptive risk taking and analyzes the decision making p...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Luker K

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：:To investigate the knowledge and practices regarding medical abortion and postabortion care in northern Nigeria among private physicians--the principal providers of such services in the area--122 doctors operating separate clinics in five states--Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Niger, and Taraba--were interviewed by means of a...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Okonofua FE,Hammed A,Abass T,Mairiga AG,Mohammed AB,Adewale A,Garba D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When women talk with each other about family planning outside the clinic, are they really only spreading myths and rumors? If nurses give good information about family planning, why do women go and talk with other women? Why would a woman instructed by a nurse at a workshop want to talk to the workshop cleaner as well...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Rutenberg N,Watkins SC

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This literature review assesses the extent of age mixing and economic transactions in the sexual relationships of adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa and the behavioral dynamics of girls and men involved in these partnerships. The examination of more than 45 quantitative and qualitative studies finds that relations...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Luke N

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary results from the Paraguay Demographic and Health Survey, 1990, are presented for population, fertility, contraceptive usage, postpartum activity, infant mortality, immunization coverage, oral rehydration treatment, use of health personnel during delivery, and nutritional status. Data were compiled by the ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the levels and correlates of contraceptive failure and discontinuation in Romania, together with the consequences of contraceptive method failure in terms of induced abortion. Of special interest are women who rely on the traditional method of withdrawal and the proportion of withdrawal failures re...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Creanga AA,Acharya R,Ahmed S,Tsui AO

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By 1988, 71% of the 206 million married Chinese women of reproductive age were using a modern method of contraception. About 60 million women were using IUDs (41%), and 38% relied on tubal ligation, the main methods promoted by the national family planning (FP) program. During several trips to China between May 1990...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Kaufman J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00