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{"title":"Contraceptive method use among women in India: Does the family type matter?","authors":"Manas Ranjan Pradhan, Sourav Mondal","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2071673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2071673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of contraceptive methods and their correlates continues to be a subject of scientific interest in developing countries, including India, for its contribution to reducing fertility and improving maternal and child health. This study explores the family type and contraceptive use by analyzing the National Family Health Survey-4 data (2015–16). Multinomial logistic regression was used to check the adjusted effects of the predictor variables on contraceptive use. STATA (version 13) was used for the analysis with a significance level of 5 per cent. Adjusting the effects of socio-demographic and economic characteristics, women from nuclear family had 6 per cent lower odds of using modern limiting method (OR = 0.94, 95 per cent CI = 0.92–0.96) and 5 per cent lower odds of using any traditional method of contraception (OR = 0.95, 95 per cent CI = 0.91–0.99) than their counterparts from non-nuclear family with mother-in-law (MIL). Family type, especially the presence of MIL, was associated with daughter-in-law’s (DIL) contraceptive behavior. The results based on a nationally representative recent survey contribute to the existing scanty evidence on the association between the MIL and DIL’s contraceptive behavior in the Indian context. Results suggest more awareness about the benefits of modern spacing methods among the mothers-in-law, leading to their enhanced use.","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":"67 1","pages":"122 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48099857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigation of the relationship between corpse age and microscopic morphometric indices of the fourth and sixth rib bones.","authors":"Yaser Amiri,&nbsp;Jafar Rezaian,&nbsp;Mohammad Saeid Taheri","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2094337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2094337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was performed to estimate the corpse age using histological examinations of the fourth and sixth ribs by a morphometric method. One hundred samples of referred bodies of the Legal Medicine Organization of Lorestan province, Iran, were examined. The sampling was performed from the fourth and sixth ribs. The transverse sections of the samples were prepared, in which various variables such as the diameter of the haversian system (DHC), haversian system perimeter (PHS), haversian system area (AHS), and the thickness of the haversian lamellae (TH) were measured using a Motic microscope video system and the Motic Image Plus 2 software. To predict age from sex and the morphometric parameters a stepwise multiple linear regression was used. Accordingly, AHS in rib 4, DHC with lens 10 in rib 4, DHC with lens 10 in rib 6 and TH in rib 6 remained in the model at significance level 0.05 (R square = 0.1654). Although age was associated with some of the studied parameters, the obtained equation was not fit enough to predict the exact age. Further parameters should be studied for prediction of age in corpse.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"164-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40479015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abortion tourism in a post-<i>Roe v. Wade</i> era.","authors":"Hiroaki Matsuura","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2100051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2100051","url":null,"abstract":"On the 24 of June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion almost five decades ago (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 2022). As a result of the decision, the authority to regulate abortion is now returned to “the people and their elected representatives,” leaving the decision of abortion bans in the hands of state legislatures. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 26 states have laws indicating that they intend to ban abortions, including 13 states with trigger bans that go into effect automatically after this decision (Guttmacher Institute 2022). The U.S. maternal mortality rate has already been the worst among high-income countries and even higher among vulnerable groups (Declercq and Zephyrin 2020). One study has already estimated that the maternal health consequences of a hypothetical nation-wide abortion ban have seen catastrophic impacts (Stevenson 2021). Other studies found that women denied abortion care face not only health but also economic and social adversaries than women with access to abortion care (Miller, Wherry, and Foster 2020a, 2020b). Pregnant women who want to avoid denied abortion in states with an abortion ban can still go with an underground abortion or seek to escape restrictive abortion laws by traveling to another state or country. Although there is no state-level evidence within the United States, cross-country studies have found that countries with liberal abortion laws are much more likely to provide safe abortion care than countries where abortion is restricted (Ganatra et al. 2017). This implies that women residing in states with an abortion ban will likely face unsafe abortions where they live. For this reason, abortion tourism was addressed as a feasible solution to receive safe abortion care for women who reside in states with an abortion ban in court opinions by both Justice Kavanaugh and the three opposing Justices (Kagan, Breyer, and Sotomayor). Both sides agreed that the constitution sufficiently protects the right to travel to other states to seek abortion care, at least for now. However, they disagreed on the extent that Kavanaugh was optimistic about such constitutional protection, while the three opposing Justices were concerned that travel bans could be the next frontier of the constitutional challenge. Although abortion tourism was much more common in the pre-Roe era, it is already seen as a solution to the unmet needs of abortion care in some states over the last ten years. For example, in western Texas clinics were forced to stop providing abortion care because they faced numerous burdensome and costly regulations in the mid-2010s (Sethna and Davis 2019). As a result, residents in this region needed to travel to other states to receive abortion care. The same also happened in other states (Venator and Fletcher 2021). A recent study identified that states with more restrictive abortion laws averaged 12 per cent of p","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40521373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early impact of COVID-19 pandemic on childbearing plan in Bangladesh.","authors":"Md Rahman Mahfuzur,&nbsp;Md Shafiul Alam,&nbsp;Md Arif Billah","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2094336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2094336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has already had many consequences for social life. This paper focused on the early impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pandemic-period childbearing plan that was made before the onset of the pandemic. Data were collected by posting survey questionnaire on social networks in Bangladesh. A total of 384 Bangladeshi men and women of reproductive age were analyzed using descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analyses after adjusting the data by applying sampling weights. One out of every five respondents was found to cancel their pandemic-period pregnancy plan by considering potential crises related to COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings showed that in canceling pandemic-period pregnancy, factors related to the potential crises of the pandemic emerged as more important than some persistent determinants of fertility, fertility intention and non-realization of fertility intention. Infection of COVID-19 to the acquaintance, being teenager, complete stopping and decline in income, and acquaintance's suggestion not to get pregnant during the pandemic played key role in canceling the pandemic-period pregnancy plan. Although it is uncertain if the impact of COVID-19 will substantially be reflected in the future fertility estimates of Bangladesh, the pandemic showed negative impact on pandemic-period childbearing plan during the early months.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"150-163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40491314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of Co-occurring Developmental Failures in Adolescence: Socioeconomic and Genetic Antecedents and Health Outcomes in Adulthood.","authors":"Kandauda K A S Wickrama,&nbsp;Tae Kyoung Lee,&nbsp;Eric T Klopack,&nbsp;Seonhwa Lee,&nbsp;Catherine Walker O'Neal","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2052710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2052710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates (1) conjoint latent classes of adolescent co-occurring developmental problems (obesity, depressive symptoms, and low educational attainment), (2) socioeconomic and genetic influences on these classes of adolescents' problem trajectories, and (3) physical health consequences of those latent classes. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; <i>N</i> = 9,107; mean age = 15.5 years; Female = 52.9 per cent) were used to identify classes of early socioeconomic adversity and conjoint trajectory groups of co-occurring developmental problems. Profiles of social antecedents, genetic endowments (polygenic scores), and physical health outcomes in young adulthood were compared across identified four conjoint trajectory risk groups (overall high-risk, overall low-risk, BMI-risk or obesity, low education-risk). The results showed that youth with overall high-risk and BMI/education-specific risk trajectory groups were more likely to be Black or Hispanic, reported more adverse socioeconomic characteristics and genetic endowment, and averaged significantly poorer physical health in young adulthood compared with youth in the overall low-risk problem trajectory group. Less pronounced differences emerged between the high-risk and problem-specific-risk groups. The findings highlight heterogeneity in adolescent co-occurring developmental problems. Adolescent heterogeneous problem co-development is associated with background socioeconomic and genetic characteristics and physical health in young adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"102-121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40316596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the future demographic crisis","authors":"H. Matsuura","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2061524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2061524","url":null,"abstract":"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 turned out to be the most significant military assault by one European nation on another since the Second World War. Due to this aggression, 3,821,049 refugees fled Ukraine in the first month since the invasion (UNHCR 2022a). The country has long suffered population decline since its independence in 1991. With ultra-low fertility rates and high death rates, Ukraine’s population decreased from its 1993 peak of 52,244,100 to 41,130,432 on February 1, 2022 – a 21.3 per cent drop. The Russian invasion is a demographic crisis that happened in the middle of a long-lasting larger demographic crisis. Through this invasion alone, Ukraine has lost an additional 7.3 per cent of its population in just the first month. The demographic crisis of the invasion is even murkier because population loss is highly concentrated in women and children. From day one of the invasion, men aged 18 to 60 were banned from leaving the country under martial law. A recent survey of 1,844 refugees conducted by the UNHCR shows that 88 per cent of respondents were women, and more than half traveled with children (UNHCR/REACH 2022). Although this survey was not necessarily population-representative, the UNHCR admitted that about ninety percent of all refugees are women and children in other interviews (UNHCR 2022b). Given 1.8 million or 24.1 per cent of all children who have crossed into neighboring countries as refugees, Ukraine has already lost an estimated 1.6 to 1.8 million, or 8.5 to 9.6 percent of, women aged 18 and older (UNICEF 2022). Some of these women (and children) will return to their homeland, but a recent study found that only about 30 per cent of refugees return to their country of origin (Constant, Culbertson, and Blake et al. 2021). If most of them do not return, this will create a significant gender and age imbalance in the Ukrainian population, especially in the current and future reproductive age group. The invasion also affects women who remain in Ukraine. It is known that males, whether soldiers or civilians, are more likely to be killed in direct warfare, but recent studies suggest that the overall excess mortality resulting from conflict is higher among women, mainly due to increased maternal mortality (Ghobarah, Huth, and Russett 2004; Plümper and Neumayer 2006; Urdal and Che 2013). It was already reported that more than 4,300 births have occurred in Ukraine during the invasion, and an estimated 80,000 women are expected to give birth in the next three months, many of whom will be without adequate access to maternal healthcare (even without the military attacking these healthcare facilities) (UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO, 2022). Additionally, 2.5 million children are internally displaced inside Ukraine and lack access to basic services and protection (UNICEF 2022). Coupled with the devastating economic and social situation, which also affects future fertility, it is almost sure that Europe’s largest humanitarian crisis w","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":"67 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49637482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disparities in diabetes between US-born and foreign-born population: using three diabetes indicators.","authors":"Daesung Choi,&nbsp;K M Venkat Narayan,&nbsp;Shivani A Patel","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2021.2016368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2021.2016368","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated disparities in diabetes between the US-born and foreign-born populations using three diabetes measures: diagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed diabetes, and total diabetes, either diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes. We analyzed adults aged 30-84 years drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2018 (n = 21,390). Of cohorts in 2009-2018, foreign-born adults had significantly higher age-standardized prevalence of diagnosed (12.6% vs. 10.6%) and undiagnosed diabetes (4.5% vs. 2.6%), and total diabetes (17.1% vs. 13.2%) than US-born adults. Results from logistic and multinomial regressions adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, limited access to healthcare and BMI showed that the foreign-born had significantly higher odds of total diabetes (OR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.04-1.50) and undiagnosed diabetes (OR: 1.83, 95% CI: 1.44-2.32) compared to the US-born. There was no significant difference in diagnosed diabetes by nativity (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 0.96-1.53). Our results show that foreign-born adults were at higher risk of diabetes than US-born adults, and the difference by nativity was largely attributable to BMI and racial/ethnic composition. In addition, we demonstrated the importance of choosing measures of diabetes in studying diabetes mainly due to the foreign-born group's high prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes, which biases the prevalence of diabetes downward when diagnosed diabetes is used.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":"67 1","pages":"16-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9039242/pdf/nihms-1766895.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10851406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Husband's income, wife's income, and number of biological children in the U.S.","authors":"Rosemary L Hopcroft","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2037070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2037070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies have found that the positive relationship between personal income and fertility for men in the United States is primarily due to childlessness among low-income men. Yet because of the opposite effects of income on fertility for men and women, it is important to examine the effects of income net of spouse's income. An analysis of income from all sources and biological fertility data for husbands and wives from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2014) shows that for men their own income is positively associated with the number of their biological children, while their spouse's income is negatively associated with total children ever fathered. The reverse is true for women. These results are not because of childlessness among low-income men and high-income women, but also hold true among all those with children. For men and women aged 45-65, who likely have completed fertility, these results hold regardless of whether or not education is controlled. These findings suggest that if status is measured as personal income for men and husband's income for women, the positive relationship between status and fertility persists in a postdemographic transition society.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"71-83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39940295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does autonomy of women influence maternal high-risk fertility? Evidence from a nationwide cross-sectional survey in Bangladesh.","authors":"Sumaiya Abedin,&nbsp;Dharma Arunachalam","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2021.2016367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2021.2016367","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study provides evidence on the principal determinants of high-risk fertility - a level of fertility, which is measured through maternal age (less than 20 years and/or more than 34 years), a large number of children (more than 3), and short birth interval (less than 18 months) in Bangladesh. More specifically, this study explores the influences of women's autonomy in decision-making, physical mobility and economic matters on high-risk fertility. Also, the socioeconomic attributes of women are used to explain this relationship. To identify the amount of variations in high-risk fertility at different geographic units across the country, a multilevel approach is applied considering individual, community and district levels by using a large nationwide dataset (BDHS 2017-2018). The findings of the present study indicate women's autonomy in decision-making have strong significant effects on high-risk fertility; however, freedom of movement and economic autonomy do not have any significant effects. Furthermore, women's education, religion and place of residence are found to be strong determinants of high-risk fertility, which also partially mediate the relationship between high-risk fertility and decision-making autonomy. High-risk fertility also varies at district level across Bangladesh.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":" ","pages":"3-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39878181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do subjective or objective cognitive measures better predict social network type among older adults?","authors":"Adam R Roth, Siyun Peng, Max E Coleman, Liana G Apostolova, Brea L Perry","doi":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2052711","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19485565.2022.2052711","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A large literature highlights the link between cognitive function and social networks in later life. Yet there remains uncertainty about the factors driving this relationship. In the present study, we use measures of subjective cognitive decline and clinical cognitive assessments on a sample of older adults to investigate whether the relationship between cognitive function and social networks is driven by psychosocial factors. We found a consistent link between clinical cognitive assessments and social network type, but no association between subjective concerns of cognitive decline and networks. Participants who exhibited signs of clinical cognitive impairment were more likely to have restricted networks (i.e., smaller networks consisting of fewer contacts, more interconnectivity, and less social diversity) compared to their cognitively normal counterparts, regardless of subjective measures of cognitive decline - both from the participant's perspective and study partner's perspective. These findings suggest that neither cognitively impaired older adults nor their network members appear to consciously dissolve social ties on the basis of perceived cognitive decline. However, it remains unclear whether the association between clinical cognitive impairment and social network type indicates the protective nature of social networks against cognitive decline or a subconscious process leading to social contraction.</p>","PeriodicalId":45428,"journal":{"name":"Biodemography and Social Biology","volume":"67 1","pages":"84-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038673/pdf/nihms-1789243.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9157139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}