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Title: | Use of Nutrition Surveys for Family Planning Programme Evaluation: The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt Nutrition Status |
Authors: | Anderson, J.E. Ali, H.E. Dakroury, A.H. Said, A.K. Hussein, M.A. El-Ghorab, M.I. Miller, D.C. Brink, E.W. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 85-92 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | family planning child health Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Family Planning and Contraception |
External link: | http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/2/85.abstract |
Abstract: | By adding a small number of demographic and family planning questions to a nutrition status survey, a great deal of data useful for family planning programmes can be generated, at little extra cost. In addition, a survey containing both data on nutrition status of children and on contraceptive use of mothers has the potential for studying the links between family planning use and child health. In the 1978 Arab Republic of Egypt Nutrition Status Survey, about one in five mothers interviewed were found to be contraceptive users; there was wide variation in use by area of residence and socioeconomic status. A positive association was found between current contraceptive use and measures of child health, an association that was maintained when residence, social status, and other background variables were controlled statistically. With the addition of a small number of questions concerning fertility to future surveys, it will be possible to study further the relationship between family planning use and one important programme goal, viz. improved child health. Ref. |