Childlessness, subfertility, and infertility in Tanzania

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-28

  Larsen, Ulla ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTION RATE;

DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY (1992); DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFERTILITY; POPULATION POLICY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NULLIPARA; OPEN LIVE-BIRTH INTERVALS; PARITY; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; POPULATION PROGRAMS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PERIOD--WOMEN; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STUDIES; SUBFECUNDITY; TANZANIA; TOTAL FERTILITY RATE; URBAN POPULATION--WOMEN;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH INTERVALS; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; FERTILITY RATE; INFERTILITY; NULLIPARITY; OPEN LIVE-BIRTH INTERVALS; PARITY; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; POPULATION PROGRAMS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PERIOD--WOMEN; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SOCIAL POLICY; STUDIES; SUBFECUNDITY; TANZANIA; TOTAL FERTILITY RATE; URBAN POPULATION--WOMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TANZANIA;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0029682761     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2138074     Document Type: Article

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