Effects of birth spacing on maternal, perinatal, infant, and child health: a systematic review of causal mechanisms

A Conde‐Agudelo, A Rosas‐Bermudez… - Studies in family …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This systematic review of 58 observational studies identified hypothetical causal
mechanisms explaining the effects of short and long intervals between pregnancies on …

Socioeconomic status and class in studies of fertility and health in developing countries

KA Bollen, JL Glanville, G Stecklov - Annual review of sociology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The concepts of socioeconomic status (SES) and class are pervasive in
sociological studies, yet an examination of the sociological and social science literature …

Contraception and health

J Cleland, A Conde-Agudelo, H Peterson, J Ross… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Increasing contraceptive use in developing countries has cut the number of maternal deaths
by 40% over the past 20 years, merely by reducing the number of unintended pregnancies …

Selective gender differences in childhood nutrition and immunization in rural India: the role of siblings

RP Pande - Demography, 2003 - Springer
This article examines the role of the sex composition of surviving older siblings on gender
differences in childhood nutrition and immunization, using data from the National Family …

Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

Health expenditures and health outcomes in Africa

JC Anyanwu, AEO Erhijakpor - African Development Review, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides econometric evidence linking African countries' per capita total as well
as government health expenditures and per capita income to two health outcomes: infant …

[HTML][HTML] When and where birth spacing matters for child survival: an international comparison using the DHS

J Molitoris, K Barclay, M Kolk - Demography, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk
of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal outcomes from …

The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia

R Sear, F Steele, IA McGregor, R Mace - Demography, 2002 - Springer
We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural
area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history …

Birth spacing and child mortality: an analysis of prospective data from the Nairobi urban health and demographic surveillance system

JC Fotso, J Cleland, B Mberu, M Mutua… - Journal of biosocial …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The majority of studies of the birth spacing–child survival relationship rely on retrospective
data, which are vulnerable to errors that might bias results. The relationship is re-assessed …

What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality: household or community characteristics?

E Van de Poel, O O'donnell, E Van Doorslaer - Demography, 2009 - Springer
The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained by using a new decomposition
method that permits identification of the contribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the …