An assessment of fetal loss among currently married women in india

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-327

  Rajaram, S ^a   Zottarelli, Lisa K ^b   Sunil, T S ^c  

^a Population Research Center   (India)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; INDUCED ABORTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MARRIED WOMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650324322     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932008003222     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Arias, F. (1993) Practical Guide to High-risk Pregnancy and Delivery, Second Edition. Mosby Year Book, Inc, St Louis.
2. Cai, Y. & Feng, W. (2005) Famine, social disruption and involuntary fetal loss: evidence from Chinese survey data. Demography 42(2), 301-322.
3. Casterline, J. B. (1989a) Collecting data on pregnancy loss: a review of evidence from the World Fertility Survey. Studies in Family Planning 20(2), 81-95.
4. Casterline, J. B. (1989b) Maternal age, gravidity, and pregnancy spacing effects on spontaneous fetal mortality. Social Biology 36(3-4), 186-211.
5. Choe, M. K. & Kim, S. K. (2007) Pregnancy wastage among married women in South Korea. Asian Population Studies 3(1), 37-55.
6. El-Saadani, S. (2000) High fertility does not cause spontaneous intrauterine fetal loss: the determinants of spontaneous fetal loss in Egypt. Social Biology 47(3-4), 218-243.
7. International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) & ORC Macro (2000) National Family Health Survey-2 (NFHS-2) 1998-1999: India. IIPS, Mumbai.
8. Jejeebhoy, S. J. (1998) Associations between wife-beating and fetal and infant death: impressions from survey in rural India. Studies in Family Planning 29(3), 300-308.
9. Kang, H., Magee, C., Mahan, C., Lee, K., Murphy, F., Jackson, L. & Matanoski, G. (2001) Pregnancy outcomes among U.S. Gulf war veterans: A population-based survey of 30,000 veterans. Annals of Epidemiology 11, 504-511.
10. Naylor, A. F. (1974) Sequential aspects of spontaneous abortion: maternal age, parity, and pregnancy compensation artifact. Social Biology 21(2), 9-22.
11. Pebley, A. R., Huffman, S. L., Chowdhury, A. K. M. A. & Stupp, P. W. (1985) Intrauterine mortality and maternal nutritional status in rural Bangladesh. Population Studies 39(3), 425-440.
12. Rajab, K. E., Mohammad, A. M. & Mustafa, F. (2000) Incidence of spontaneous abortion in Bahrain before and after the Gulf War of 1991. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 68, 139-144.
13. Rajaram, S., Zottarelli, L. K. & Sunil, T. S. (2007) Individual, household, program and community effects on childhood malnutrition in rural India. Maternal and Child Nutrition 3(2), 129-140.
14. Regan, L. & Rai, R. (2000) Epidemiology and the medical causes of miscarriage. Bailliere's Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 14(5), 839-854.
15. Rutstein, S. O. (2005) Effects of preceding birth intervals on neonatal, infant and under-five years mortality and nutritional status in developing countries: evidence from the demographic and health surveys. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 89, S7-24.
16. Savitz, D. A., Dole, N., Terry, J. W., Zhou, H. & Thorp, J. M. (2001) Smoking and pregnancy outcome among African-American and White women in central North Carolina. Epidemiology 12(6), 636-642.
17. Shu, X. O., Hatch, M. C., Mills, J., Clemens, J. & Susser, M. (1995) Maternal smoking, alcohol drinking, caffeine consumption, and fetal growth: results form a prospective study. Epidemiology 6(2), 115-120.
18. Simpson, J. L. & Carson, S. (1993) Biological causes of fetal loss. In Gray, R., Leridon, H. & Spira, A. (eds) Biomedical and Demographic Determinants of Reproduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 287-315.
19. World Health Organization (1998) The World Health Report 1998 - Life in the 21st Century: A Vision for All. WHO, Geneva.