Predicting high risk births with contraceptive prevalence and contraceptive method-mix in an ecologic analysis
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Predicting high risk births with contraceptive prevalence and contraceptive method-mix in an ecologic analysis
BACKGROUND Increased contraceptive use has been associated with a decrease in high parity births, births that occur close together in time, and births to very young or to older women. These types of births are also associated with high risk of under-five mortality. Previous studies have looked at the change in the level of contraception use and the average change in these types of high-risk bir...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4741-6