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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Demographic and health survey."”.
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Birth spacing among women using contraceptives in Zambia : analysis of demographic and health survey data 2013/2014
Zambia is in its second stage of demographic transition with high fertility rate. This aspect prompted this study aimed at investigating the factors that are significant in birth spacing among women contraceptive users in the reproductive age (15-49) owing to Zambian’s youthful population. The …
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Birth spacing among women using contraceptives in Zambia : analysis of demographic and health survey data 2013/2014
Zambia is in its second stage of demographic transition with high fertility rate. This aspect prompted this study aimed at investigating the factors that are significant in birth spacing among women contraceptive users in the reproductive age (15-49) owing to Zambian’s youthful population. The …
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Determinants of infant mortality in Luapula province, Zambia : a further analysis of the 2018 Zambia demographic and health survey.
… still remains a subject of growing interest and debate among researchers as it is an indicator of quality life. Luapula province has been consistently experiencing the highest number of infant deaths in Zambia as evidenced by the Zambian Demographic and Health Survey. Luapula province had the …
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Maternal socio-demographic characteristics and foetal losses: An analysis of data from 2013/14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
OBJECTIVES: To determine social and demographic characteristics of mothers that were risk factors for pregnancy losses and; assess the relative importance of respective socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of mothers in determining the risk of losing a pregnancy METHODOLOGY: This was a …
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Determinants of infant mortality in Luapula province, Zambia : a further analysis of the 2018 Zambia demographic and health survey.
… still remains a subject of growing interest and debate among researchers as it is an indicator of quality life. Luapula province has been consistently experiencing the highest number of infant deaths in Zambia as evidenced by the Zambian Demographic and Health Survey. Luapula province had the …
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Maternal socio-demographic characteristics and foetal losses: An analysis of data from 2013/14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
OBJECTIVES: To determine social and demographic characteristics of mothers that were risk factors for pregnancy losses and; assess the relative importance of respective socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of mothers in determining the risk of losing a pregnancy METHODOLOGY: This was a …
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Unmet need for contraception and its determinants among adolescent girls in Uganda: Findings from Demographic and Health Survey (2011).
… of the pregnancies in adolescents are unintended and of those, more than half of them end in unsafe abortions (Susheela Singh and Jacqueline E. Darroch & Darroch, 2012). 24% of adolescent females get pregnant annually in Uganda, and most of these are unwanted and unintended pregnancies (Atuyambe …
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Factors associated with postnatal care service utilization among mothers in Zambia: a cross sectional study based on the 2013-14 Zambia demographic and health survey
… The analysis was based on the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) Data. The ZDHS has nationally representative data. The information was collected through face-to-face interviews of men and women as well as syphilis and HIV testing results. The 2013-14 ZDHS sampled 16,411 women …
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Factors associated with postnatal care service utilization among mothers in Zambia: a cross sectional study based on the 2013-14 Zambia demographic and health survey
… The analysis was based on the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) Data. The ZDHS has nationally representative data. The information was collected through face-to-face interviews of men and women as well as syphilis and HIV testing results. The 2013-14 ZDHS sampled 16,411 women …
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Investigation of level and differentials in child mortality in South Africa: insight from Census 2001 and 2011, Community Survey 2016 and Demographic and Health Survey 2016
… of childhood mortality is important for low and middle-income countries to monitor overall development and progress towards improved child health. The overall aim of this research is to estimate the level and trend of childhood mortality in South Africa over time, and to examine the factors …
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Determinants of maternal use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and visit to a medical facility for diarrhea among under-five children in Nigeria: a secondary analysis of 2013 Nigerian demographic and health survey
… prompt use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and immediate medical attention. Nevertheless, some children do not receive prompt care which sometimes leads to premature deaths. Objective: This study examines the influence of various maternal factors on the use of ORS and visiting medical …
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Modelling covariates of infant and child mortality in Malawi
… age of five has been the main target of public health policies (Gakusi and Garenne 2006). There has been a significant decline in under-five mortality in the twentieth century in almost all countries regardless of initial levels and socio-economic factors, although the rate of decline has been …
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The social epidemiology of tuberculosis in South Africa : a multilevel analysis
… South African data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey and the 1996 national census to evaluate individual-, household -and community-level risk factors for tuberculosis disease using a hierarchical regression model.
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The effect of HIV/AIDS on the own child-method of estimating child mortality : Lesotho and Zimbabwe
… own-child method of estimating child mortality, and the contribution of the various components to the overall bias. Indirect estimates of child mortality are calculated by applying the own-child method to the 2009 Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey (LDHS) and the 2005-6 Zimbabwe DHS. In the …
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The determinants of contraceptive use in Zambia
… fertility rate (TFR) fluctuated between 6.5 and 6.2. The study uses three Zambian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data sets for 1996, 2001-2 and 2007 and applies multivariate logistic regression techniques to identify factors affecting the use and choice of modern contraceptives by …
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A Bayesian multilevel model for women unemployment in South Africa
The study is aimed at investigating and explaining the demographic and socio-economic determinants components a ecting women unemployment in South Africa. The classical and the Bayesian estimation approach were applied to a multilevel logistic regression (MLR) model. Secondary data acquired from …
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Traditional Agricultural Practices and Sex Ratios at Birth in Modern Times
… the plough hypothesis developed by Ester Boserup and the work of Alesina et al. (2013), this study provides a further empirical test of the legacy of the plough. I perform empirical analysis on micro level data from the Demographic and Health Survey in over 75 countries to develop a number of …
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Two investigations into the causal link between child mortality and subsequent fertility using DHS data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
… into the causal link between childhood mortality and fertility using Demographic and Health Survey data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, countries which are at different stages of the demographic transition. The first investigation assesses the effect of the death of a child on …
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Early Life Rainfall and Later Life Human Capital Outcomes in Bangladesh
… during individuals early-life on later life health, wealth and education outcomes of Bangladeshi women born between 1952-1988. I link historical rainfall for each woman’s birth year and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) cluster of birth with current outcomes from the 1999/2000, 2004 and …
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The factors associated with under-five mortality in Zambia
… mortality in Zambia by using the 1996 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey. Results are compared to an earlier investigation by Nsemukila (1996) that used the 1992 survey and an adapted Mosley-Chen analytical framework. The construction of variables and analytical techniques are aimed at …
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