Background Girl child marriage is increasingly recognized as a critical barrier to global
public health and gender discrimination. There are still more gaps in the global rate of child …

PURPOSE: Despite the pervasiveness of child marriage and its potentially adverse
consequences on reproductive health outcomes, there is relatively little empirical evidence …

The Double Burden of Malnutrition (DBM) is the coexistence of both undernutrition and
overnutrition in the same population across the life course.“Across the life course” refers to …

The consequences of early childbearing on the growth and nutritional status of women in
India has not been quantified in previous studies. Our study aimed to fill this gap by …

The relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and early marriage is explored
using the 2005-2006 India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3). The NFHS-3 collected …

Introduction: Young newly married women and first-time parents (FTPs), particularly those
living in slum settlements, have a high unmet need for modern contraceptive methods to limit …

Background. Low use of maternal healthcare services is one of the reasons why maternal
mortality is still considerably high among adolescents mothers in India. To increase the …

This study explored the prevalence of child marriage and its association with reproductive
outcomes and service utilization among young women in Afghanistan. We conducted a …

Objective This article links stress and cumulative disadvantage associated with early
marriages with lower self‐rated health, greater functional limitations, and chronic diseases …

BACKGROUND: Ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving branch of medicine and advancing
technology has raised the bar of patient expectations and outcomes. However, studies that …