ArticleSexual and reproductive health matters2019
Critical insights on the demographic concept of "birth spacing": locating
Article in Sexual and reproductive health matters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Factors associated with male acceptance of modern contraceptive methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study in a peri-urban municipality.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- Gender norms and family planning amongst pastoralists in Kenya: a qualitative study in Wajir and Mandera.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2022Article
- "I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily" - Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022Article
- Family Planning Beliefs and Their Association with Contraceptive Use Dynamics: Results from a Longitudinal Study in Uganda.Studies in family planning · 2021Article
- A Stalled Revolution? Misoprostol and the Pharmaceuticalization of Reproductive Health in Francophone Africa.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Birth spacing has emerged since the early 1980s as a key concept to improve maternal and child health, triggering interest in birth spacing practices in low-income countries, and drawing attention to prevailing norms in favour of long birth intervals in West Africa. In Senegal, the Wolof concept of
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