This report examines the relationship between reproductive behavior and child survivalin Egypt. The relationship is of fundamental importance to an understanding of demographic dynamics and for the formulation of population policies. Using Egyptian data from 1975-80, it was found that weaning...

The main health issues for Jamaican women are nutrition, fertility, infection, chronic diseases, and stress and social problems. The two leading causes of adult health for women are cerebro-vascular accidents and coronary heart disease - of which high blood pressure is a major component among...

Each year 500,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy - 99 percent of them in developing countries. While many of those pregnancies are unwanted and could have been prevented by family planning, only a minority of developing country couples use effective contraceptive methods. For some...

The Matlab Project in Bangladesh and the Kundam Project in India have demonstrated that a significant rise in contraceptive prevalence can occur in socioeconomic environments that are generally conducive to high fertility and mortality. The author describes the inputs and outputs of these two...

Although reproductive health advocates consider family planning programs the intervention of choice to reduce fertility, there remains a great deal of skepticism among economists as to their effectiveness, despite little rigorous evidence to support either position. This study explores the...

В статье рассмотрены вопросы, связанные с формированием концепции репродуктивных прав человека и их место в системе конституционных прав и свобод человека и...

В статье обоснована значимость здоровья для воспроизводства населения, рассмотрены тенденции изменения репродуктивного здоровья населения Вологодской...

Исследована динамика основных показателей абортов, связанных с нежелательной беременностью. Определены особенности их динамики по регионам Украины, а также...