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Factors Determining Intention to Use Contraception Among Sexually Active Women in South Africa: A Multilevel Modelling Approach

Advances in Public Health
Conclusion: The results showed that age, population group, parity, ideal number of children, desire to delay childbearing, exposure to family planning messages/advice, and province were key predictors of women’s intention to use contraception.
Germinah Motshegwa, Mluleki Tsawe, Onalenna Legotlo, Marinkie Malatji, Shirley Mathabatha, Reamogetse Phateng, Kenneth Pule Tshabalala, Jaqueline Seima, Mary Berries, Tsholofelo Seokamo   +9 more
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Demography Is Not Destiny [PDF]

, 1999
Examines demographic and economic trends, and other challenges and opportunities associated with the aging American population. Highlights the interactions that occur among public programs, private institutions, and individuals.
Laura Summer, Robert B. Friedland
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Between Droughts and Floods: The Seasonal Response of Freshwater Snails in Artificial Reservoirs in the Brazilian Semiarid Region

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We investigate the seasonal dynamics of two freshwater snails, Biomphalaria straminea and Melanoides tuberculata, in artificial reservoirs of the Brazilian semiarid region. Despite regulated hydrology, B. straminea exhibited strong seasonal fluctuations associated with dry periods, while M. tuberculata maintained stable populations throughout the year,
Lucas Henrique Sousa da Silva, João Hemerson de Sousa, Adriana Josefa da Rocha, Manuella Feitosa Leal, Lucas Ariel de Sousa Aguiar, Tamaris Gimenez Pinheiro, Edson Lourenço da Silva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moving in the Dark: Enlightening the Spatial Population Ecology of European Cave Salamanders

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We assessed individual interactions, movement ecology and activity patterns of a subterranean population of Speleomantes strinatii, applying spatial capture–recapture modeling to a photographic dataset of 104 individuals. ABSTRACT Space use and movement are fundamental aspects of organisms' ecology, mirroring individual fitness, behavior, and life ...
Giacomo Rosa, Andrea Costa, Sebastiano Salvidio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular characterization of rotavirus group A strains circulating prior to vaccine introduction in rural coastal Kenya, 2002-2013 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
Background: Kenya introduced the monovalent Rotarix® rotavirus group A (RVA) vaccine nationally in mid-2014.  Long-term surveillance data is important prior to wide-scale vaccine use to assess the impact on disease and to investigate the occurrence of ...
Betty E. Owor, Mike J. Mwanga, Regina Njeru, Robert Mugo, Mwanajuma Ngama, Grieven P. Otieno, D.J. Nokes, C.N. Agoti   +7 more
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Cohort Fertility, Parity Progression, and Family Size in Former Yugoslav Countries

Comparative Population Studies, 2020
Yugoslavia was a union of countries at the crossroads of cultures, rich in diversity, bringing together heterogeneous populations with very different demographic transition pathways, particularly with respect to fertility.
Ivan Čipin, Kryštof Zeman, Petra Međimurec   +2 more
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Individual quality of life and the environment – towards a concept of livable areas for persons with disabilities in Poland

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [1] highlights the need to create proper socioeconomic and political conditions for persons with disabilities, with a special focus on their immediate living conditions ...
Izabela Grabowska, Radosław Antczak, Jan Zwierzchowski, Tomasz Panek   +3 more
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Qualitative research about public health risk perceptions on ambient air pollution. A review study

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Background: Understanding public health risk perceptions is essential in efficient environmental health management. In the light of the negative impact of air pollution on health and the direct and indirect mediation of this impact through risk ...
Charlotte Noël, Christophe Vanroelen, Sylvie Gadeyne   +2 more
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Sociophysics Simulations III: Retirement Demography

, 2005
This third part of the lecture series deals with the question: Who will pay for your retirement? For Western Europe the answer may be ``nobody'', but for Algeria the demography looks more promising.Comment: For 8th Granada seminar (AIP Conf.
Stauffer, Dietrich, Zekri, Lotfi
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Demography and Archaeology

Human Biology, 2009
In the field of archaeology, demography has sometimes seemed something of a phantom science. Many explanatory models in archaeology have taken population density as a central theme. But the quantitative precision and broad sweep of the resulting formulations, scientific enough in their intentions, have often been undermined by the difficulties in the ...
openaire   +4 more sources