Reproductive change in Zimbabwe and Kenya: The role of the proximate determinants in recent fertility trends

Social Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 82-99

  Sibanda, Amson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVULATION RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY DETERMINANTS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; KENYA; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MIDDLE AGED; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUERPERIUM; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY PLANNING; FECUNDABILITY; FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; FERTILITY DETERMINANTS; INFERTILITY; KENYA; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; ZIMBABWE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0033085898     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1999.9988989     Document Type: Article

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