Trends in fertility patterns of women in rural zimbabwe

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 369-382

  Nilses, Carin ^a   Lindmark, Gunilla ^a   Munjanja, Stephen ^b   Nyström, Lennarth ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTION RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MEASUREMENT; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; NUPTIALITY; NUTRITION; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; FERTILITY RATE; HEALTH; INFERTILITY; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE AGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MEASUREMENT; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NUPTIALITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; ZIMBABWE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; REPRODUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031180651     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399339709516291     Document Type: Article

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