Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding … decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us- ing survey data from India. …

). Though diffusion per se, no real explanation for the fast decline of fertility in Southern or Coastal India (what would then … of non-demographic data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapping to test out the presence of regional … clustering. Regional analysis reveals that economic, social and health indicators display spatial patterns as strong as fertility …

progress towards the child mortality Millennium Development Goal of India. This is a synthesis of analytical work done by the … analysis of child mortality in India …

. This is the first time since independence that a state in India has witnessed an absolute decline in population. In this …

-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight the structural linkages between marriage … age patterns, contraception, antenatal and delivery care, children’s immunization and fertility. The parametric … estimates of the recursive structural system are based on data for 504 districts of India on relevant parameters from alternate …