In this article we examine the impact of family structure on educational attainment in Hungary. Using a data-set collected in 1983 with information on all siblings of 17146 primary respondents, the effects of family size, birth order, and spacing were investigated. Hypotheses on these effects were based on sibling resource-dilution theory, which was modified for the case of Hungary, where educa...

Background Long acting and permanent contraceptive methods are the most effective family planning (FP) methods to prevent pregnancy and thereby averting adverse consequences of too many and ill-timed pregnancies. However, long acting and permanent contraceptive methods (LAPMs) are underutilized in Ethiopia for little documented reasons. Therefore, this study is aimed to assess magnitude and fac...

This study aims to examine the relationship between number of children, birth spacing, and father's role in incidence stunting during COVID-19 pandemic. The research method uses quantitative with a cross-sectional sampling approach. results showed that p-value on variable children was 0.545 > 0.05, spacing 0.667 0.771 0.05. In conclusion, there is no significant position Pandemic Working Are...

In this study the relation between maternal age, spacing number of pregnancies and birth weight and height was evaluated 1000 newborns in Fatemeh hospital in Hamedan. The growth parameters of newborns from mothers aged  18-35 years, were more than newborns from mothers under 18 or over 35 years. Also infants born from mothers, how had less than 24 months interval between pregnancies weight less...

OBJECTIVE This paper examines the association between birth intervals and infant and child mortality and nutritional status. METHODS Repeated analysis of retrospective survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program from 17 developing countries collected between 1990 and 1997 were used to examine these relationships. The key independent variable is the length of the precedin...

BACKGROUND Poorly spaced pregnancies have been documented worldwide to result in adverse maternal and child health outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a minimum inter-birth interval of 33 months between two consecutive live births in order to reduce the risk of adverse maternal and child health outcomes. However, birth spacing practices in many developing countries, includi...