Contraceptives

Background: Prevalence of modern contraceptive use is low in most of sub Saharan Africa (SSA). However, not much attention has been paid to contraceptive use among women 35-49 years and little is known about the association between involvement in household decision-making and co…

Introduction . Improving women's ability to meet their fertility goals is an important step in promoting women's reproductive rights worldwide. Fertility is a complex phenomenon involving both biological influences and individual decisions, which are influenced by socioeconomic …

Since the early 1950s considerable research has focused on the complex husband-wife dynamic behind a couple's decision to initiate family planning, the roots of which can be traced to Stycos (1955), who proposed that lack of effective communication between spouses was the main f…

The first chapter revisits the question of which of the two forces, demand for children and cost of fertility control, contributed more to the fertility decline in developing countries in the second half of the last century. It examines women's education and birth spacing in Ind…