Longer birth intervals can reduce infant mortality in poor countries
(2019) In N-IUSSP- Abstract
- Recent work on wealthy populations has called into question long-standing conclusions about the importance of birth spacing for infant health. Using data from 77 countries, Joseph Molitoris and colleagues show that spacing births beyond 24 months can greatly reduce infant mortality risks, but that the benefits of birth spacing decline with socioeconomic and demographic development.
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- author
- Molitoris, Joseph LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019-11-07
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- N-IUSSP
- pages
- 6 pages
- ISSN
- 2704-7067
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f25dbc7e-e70a-4b3d-b3b5-a1572160d04a
- alternative location
- http://www.niussp.org/article/longer-birth-intervals-can-reduce-infant-mortality-in-poor-countries/
- date added to LUP
- 2019-11-14 10:48:53
- date last changed
- 2020-12-08 15:17:03
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abstract = {{Recent work on wealthy populations has called into question long-standing conclusions about the importance of birth spacing for infant health. Using data from 77 countries, Joseph Molitoris and colleagues show that spacing births beyond 24 months can greatly reduce infant mortality risks, but that the benefits of birth spacing decline with socioeconomic and demographic development.}},
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language = {{eng}},
month = {{11}},
series = {{N-IUSSP}},
title = {{Longer birth intervals can reduce infant mortality in poor countries}},
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year = {{2019}},
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