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

abstract：:This article presents results from the 1997 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey (JPFHS) that was conducted by the Department of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, within the framework of the Demographic and Health Survey Program of Macro International. The data for the nationally representative JPFHS were collected fr...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:This article examines women's covert use of contraceptives, that is, their use of a method without their husbands' knowledge. Three questions are addressed: (1) How is covert use measured? (2) How prevalent is it? and (3) What are the factors underlying covert use? Existing studies are used together with survey and qu...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Biddlecom AE,Fapohunda BM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh, to examine the impact of child mortality on subsequent contraceptive acceptance and continuation. The strong negative impact is found to attenuate with family size, indicating a "replacement effect". An "insurance effect" is observed as contraceptive accep...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Rahman M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a growing proportion of young people is spending some time in school between puberty and marriage, little research on education in developing countries has been focused on adolescent issues. This article examines the school environment in Kenya and the ways it can help or hinder adolescents. Gender difference...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Mensch BS,Lloyd CB

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study re-evaluates the relationship of urban women's employment to their health-service and contraceptive use, drawing on data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences across types of work for the likelihood of both obtaining timely prenatal care...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Miles-Doan R,Brewster KL

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：: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：:This article presents the results of an assessment of gynecological morbidity among 385 women with young children residing in a district of Karnataka State, South India. All three main modes of assessment (clinical examination, laboratory tests, and self-reports) reveal a high burden of reproductive tract infections. ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Bhatia JC,Cleland J,Bhagavan L,Rao NS

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community-based investigation of maternal deaths was undertaken in a rural province (Masvingo) and an urban area (Harare) of Zimbabwe in order to assess their preventability. Avoidable factors were identified in 90 percent of the 105 rural deaths and 85 percent of 61 urban deaths. Delay in seeking treatment contribu...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Fawcus S,Mbizvo M,Lindmark G,Nyström L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These are summary results from the 1994 Bolivia National Demographic and Health Survey, which covered 9,114 households and 8,603 women aged 15-49. Tabular data are provided on population characteristics, fertility, fertility preferences, current contraceptive use, marital and contraceptive status, postpartum variables...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the trends and variations in childlessness, subfertility, and infertility in Tanzania according to data from the 1973 National Demographic Survey and the 1991-92 Demographic and Health Survey. Between the surveys, the proportion of women older than 30 who were childless was found to have declined m...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Larsen U

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency contraception has been called the best-kept contraceptive secret. Previous research shows that several regimens of postcoital contraception offer safe and effective ways for women to avoid pregnancy. Yet the methods are typically unavailable to women in developing countries. In this article, the authors revi...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Ellertson C,Winikoff B,Armstrong E,Camp S,Senanayake P

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：: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：:Data collected from 3,073 couples in four Nigerian cities and one semi-urban settlement were used to examine reproductive decision-making and male motivation for large family size. The report concludes that the characteristic male-dominant and patrilineal traditions support large family size and that men's reproductiv...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Isiugo-Abanihe UC

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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

abstract：:Thailand is currently experiencing a major HIV epidemic, spread primarily through heterosexual contact. Patronage of prostitutes is relatively common. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted in a Central Thai province with a purposive sample of 181 urban men who had had sexual relations with at least two differ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Havanon N,Bennett A,Knodel J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multimedia communication campaign was conducted between 1988 and 1989 to promote family planning among men in Zimbabwe. The campaign consisted of a 52-episode semiweekly radio soap opera, about 60 motivational talks, and two pamphlets about contraceptive methods. Changes over time were measured by comparing a subset...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Piotrow PT,Kincaid DL,Hindin MJ,Lettenmaier CL,Kuseka I,Silberman T,Zinanga A,Chikara F,Adamchak DJ,Mbizvo MT

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the extent of unwanted pregnancy, the use of illegally induced abortion, and the attitudes toward and practice of contraception among women admitted to a hospital with the diagnosis of abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (In Tanzania, induced abortion is permitted only to save the mother's lif...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Justesen A,Kapiga SH,van Asten HA

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：: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：:The summary results from the 1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey are tabled and graphically presented. The nationally representative sample includes 8173 households with 7150 interviews from women 15-49 years. Data was collected between December and May 1989 from all provinces except the North Eastern Province ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：: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 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：: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 study compares family size preferences, ideal sex compositions, and the motivation underlying these preferences between currently married women and their husbands in a transitional rural society in India. Reasons for having children, though similar, differ in some important respects: women's family size preferenc...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Jejeebhoy SJ,Kulkarni S

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-level research data from a Maternal-Child Health and Family Planning (MCH/FP) program and comparison areas in rural Bangladesh indicate that 60 percent of infant deaths occurred in the neonatal period in both areas. Since the inception of the MCH/FP program, mortality rates declined relative to those in the ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Bhatia S

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：: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：:It is widely believed that family planning has important benefits for both maternal and child health. Despite this, little work has been done to quantify the potential effect of family planning in reducing maternal mortality. This paper assesses the impact of family planning in averting maternal deaths, and discusses ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Winikoff B,Sullivan M

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Data from a national survey of young unmarried women are used to analyze the relationship of perceptions of method characteristics to the acceptability of methods for use and to the actual contraceptive choice. Ordinary least squares (OLS) and logistic regression analyses are employed to assess the effects of percepti...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Tanfer K,Rosenbaum E

更新日期：1986-11-01 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 purpose of this study was to examine the factors that affect approval for and completion of sterilization in Rio de Janeiro. Of 2,186 new female family planning clients, 1,256 requested sterilization and 925 were approved for surgery. Among the approved women, 639 scheduled surgery and, of these, 595 were steriliz...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Lassner KJ,Janowitz B,Rodrigues CM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of a high and increasing incidence of unwanted pregnancy among Nigerian adolescents, a sample survey of never-married residents of the Ibadan area, aged 14 to 25 years, was conducted in 1982 to learn about their perceptions and practices relating to reproductive health. A substantial proportion of the y...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Nichols D,Ladipo OA,Paxman JM,Otolorin EO

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of fecundability from survey data is plagued by methodological problems such as misreporting of dates of birth and marriage and the occurrence of premarital exposure to the risk of conception. Nevertheless, estimates of fecundability from World Fertility Survey data for women married in recent years app...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Goldman N,Westoff CF,Paul LE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00