{"title":"Community-based intervention trials.","authors":"B R Kirkwood, R H Morrow","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"79-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13807232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sociodemographic determinants of contraceptive method choice in Sri Lanka: 1975-82.","authors":"J R Kahn, S Thapa, K H Gaminiratne","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The determinants of contraceptive method choice in Sri Lanka are examined during a period in which contraceptive prevalence increased by over 60% and involved substantial use of sterilization and traditional methods. Data are from the 1975 World Fertility and 1982 Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys. Polytomous logistic regression is used to model four current contraceptive choices: non-use, use of a traditional method, use of a modern temporary method and use of sterilization. The analysis shows, in 1975 and 1982, strong socioeconomic as well as demographic effects on whether any method is used. However, in both years the type of method chosen is primarily a function of demographic considerations related to the couple's family-building stage rather than social status, implying that in Sri Lanka there are few socioeconomic barriers limiting access to different contraceptive methods. The family planning programme, however, has emphasized sterilization rather than birth spacing methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"11 ","pages":"41-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13635186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring the impact of health interventions on mortality in developing countries: why bother?","authors":"W Graham","doi":"10.1017/s002193200002527x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002193200002527x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"69-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s002193200002527x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13893943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal schooling and childhood mortality.","authors":"J Cleland, J van Ginneken","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025244","url":null,"abstract":"There is nothing new about the belief that the spread of education with its influence on knowledge and outlook is a central force behind the demographic transition. In 1934 Penrose wrote: ‘when a community has gained the knowledge and acquired the habits necessary to reduce the death rate it will sooner or later gain the knowledge and acquire the habits necessary to reduce the birth rate. There may be time lag between the two processes, but both of them in a large share are the outcome of education’ (Penrose, 1934). It is thus surprising that investigation of the specific influence of parental education on the mortality of children in developing countries was neglected until Caldwell's (1979) analysis of survey data from Ibadan, Nigeria, which demonstrated that mother's education was a more decisive determinant of child survival than other family characteristics such as husband's occupation and education. Other studies followed this influential investigation. The greater contribution to mortality decline of educational advance compared to health care provision, it has been argued, is a contribution to the development versus medical technology debate (Mosley, 1985). Inevitably the beginnings of a counter-reaction may be discerned. Caldwell (1986) stressed that the influence of education should not be considered in isolation from the wider context, while Cooksey et al. (1986, unpublished) consider that the effect of maternal education may have been exaggerated.","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"13-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13807229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the effect of primary health care on mortality in Ghana.","authors":"S Adjei","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"115-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13893940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduction in neonatal mortality by simple interventions.","authors":"S R Daga","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"127-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13893941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J DaVanzo, D Reboussin, E Starbird, B A Tan, S A Hadi
{"title":"Contraceptive method switching over women's reproductive careers: evidence from Malaysian life history data, 1940s-70s.","authors":"J DaVanzo, D Reboussin, E Starbird, B A Tan, S A Hadi","doi":"10.1017/s0021932000025438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000025438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several new concepts are used to describe contraceptive use histories for nearly 1200 women in Peninsular Malaysia. These histories are summarized by 81 episode histories. Transition matrices provide useful summaries of the changes women make in their contraceptive practice from one pregnancy interval to the next. Data from the mid-1940s to mid-1970s, during which period there was a dramatic increase in contraceptive use, reveal considerable inertia in individual couples' contraceptive practice. Persistence with a method was greater the less effective the method: while 86% of couples using no method in one interval used no method in the next, only 56% of couples using the pill in one interval also used it in the next. Virtually all transitions are of three types: continuation with the same method, a change from no method to some method, or a change from some method to no method. For only 1% of all pregnancies did couples use one contraceptive method before a pregnancy and a different method after the pregnancy. Differences are examined by calendar year and education.</p>","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"11 ","pages":"95-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0021932000025438","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13635028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health interventions and mortality change in developing countries.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"1-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13893938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of measles immunization on child mortality in rural Gambia.","authors":"P J Williams","doi":"10.1017/s002193200002530x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002193200002530x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biosocial science. Supplement","volume":"10 ","pages":"95-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s002193200002530x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13893945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}