ArticleMaternal and child health journal2017
Unintended Childbearing and Child Growth in Northern Malawi.
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- Functional principal component analysis for identifying the child growth pattern using longitudinal birth cohort data.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
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- The prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its association with HIV status among pregnant women in South Africa, a national antenatal survey, 2019.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Didn't Plan One but got One:European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2021Article
- Pregnancy intention data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study.Population health metrics · 2021Article
- Prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its associated factors: Evidence from six south Asian countries.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Effect of sexual violence on planned, mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Does unwanted pregnancy lead to adverse health and healthcare utilization for mother and child? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries.International journal of public health · 2020Article
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- Associations between contraception and stunting in Guatemala: secondary analysis of the 2014-2015 Demographic and Health Survey.BMJ paediatrics open · 2019Article
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Objective The study aims to assess whether unintended children experience slower growth than intended children. Methods We analysed longitudinal data linked to the Karonga Health and Demographic Surveillance Site collected over three rounds between 2008 and 2011 on women's fertility intentions and anthropometric data of children. Using the prospective information on fertility intention we assessed whether unintended children are more likely to be stunted than intended children. We applied Propensity Score Matching technique to control for endogenous factors affecting both the probability that a family has an unwanted birth and a child with poor health outcomes. Results We found that 24 % of children from unwanted pregnancies were stunted compared with 18 % of mistimed pregnancies and 17 % of those from wanted pregnancies. However, these differences in probability of children being stunted, though in the expected direction, were not significant either for large or small families, after controlling for age. The number of children in the household was associated with stunting and boys were substantially more likely to be stunted than girls. Conclusion We found no significance difference in probability of being stunted by mother's fertility intention.
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