objective: to ascertain the unmet needs of family planning & identify the practice of family planning among the urban to rural migrated slum dwellers. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was done randomly among selected 600 slum dwellers residing in two selected slums of dhaka city. data collected by face to face interview using pretested semi structured questionnaire. re...

background: family planning is a lifestyle that is selected voluntarily and is based on the knowledge, attitude and responsible decision making by couples in order to promote the health and welfare of the family and the advancement of the society. in this regard, family planning counseling plays an important role in making informed decisions if used properly and in a responsible way. detection ...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: The United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS of 2006 stressed the need to strengthen policy and programme linkages between HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). However, the effectiveness and best practices for strengthening SRH and ...

Malawi has one of the highest Contraceptive Prevalence Rates (CPR) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, fertility remains high and fertility decline is slow. This paper uses data from the 2000 and 2004 Demographic and Health Surveys to examine correlates of contraceptive use among currently married women in Malawi. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to establish the re...

background: fertility pattern has some influence on health of mother and child as well as it can resist population growth. methods: a cross sectional study on fertility perception among married women of reproductive age group, was carried out in 3 blocks and 2 municipality areas of howrah district of west bengal, india, covering 12 villages and 4 wards, selected by stratified multistage random ...

a survey was made to study the rational given by women living in rural area of west tehran for using or not using family planning measures (1994). the purposes of this study were to investigate the reasons for using or not using family planning measures and it's relation to personal characteristics of the subjects. the samples were grouped in smaller groups: - those using effective family ...

The real-world application of planning techniques often requires models with numeric fluents. However, these fluents are not directly supported by most planners and heuristics. We describe a family of planning algorithms that takes a numeric planning problem and produces an abstracted representation that can be solved using any classical planner. The resulting abstract plan is generalized into ...

The causal link between family size and human capital investment in children is critical for planning policy. However, empirical studies aiming to test the quantity–quality trade-off are far from sufficient. This paper tried estimate family-size effect on intergenerational income mobility using China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) data. model of with respective was formulated, fertility rates allow...