Michael Koenig, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mian Bazle Hossain, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder
We explore the determinants of domestic violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh. We found increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence to be associated with lower risks of violence. The effects of women's status on violence was found to be hi...
Michael Koenig, Mian Bazle Hossain, Maxine Whittaker
Efforts to develop quantitative indicators of quality of care for family planning services, and to evaluate its role in contraceptive behavior, remain at an early stage. The present study, based upon an analysis of prospective data from a sample of 7,800 reproductive-aged rural Bangladeshi women, pr...
James F. Phillips, Ruth Simmons, Michael Koenig, J. Chakraborty
A decade has elapsed since a project was launched in Matlab, Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that contraceptive services can induce and sustain fertility decline in a rural traditional population. The demographic impact of this project has been pronounced, lending support to the view that supply-s...
Michael Koenig, Vincent Fauveau, A. I. Chowdhury, Jayajit Chakraborty et al.
This paper reports findings from a study of maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh during the 1976-85 period. The study employed a multiple-step procedure to identify maternity-related deaths to all reproductive-aged women within the study area during this period. A total of 387 maternal deaths we...
Michael Koenig, Tulshi D. Saha, Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Shams El Arifeen et al.
CONTEXT: Although the reduction of maternal mortality levels is a key Millennium Development Goal, community-based evidence on obstetric complications and maternal care-seeking behavior remains limited in low-resource countries. METHODS: This study presents an overview of key findings from the 2001 ...
Michael Koenig, James F. Phillips, Oona M. R. Campbell, Stan D’Souza
This study investigates the relationship between birth intervals and childhood mortality, using longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh known to be of exceptional accuracy and completeness. Results demonstrate significant but very distinctive effects of the previous and subsequent birth intervals on...
Michael Koenig, Mehrab Ali Khan, Bogdan Wojtyniak, John D. Clemens et al.
This study examines the impact of measles vaccination on childhood mortality, based on longitudinal data from the Matlab maternal and child health/family planning programme in rural Bangladesh. It analyses the mortality experience of 8135 vaccinated and 8135 randomly matched nonvaccinated children a...
Michael Koenig, Stan D’Souza
The issue of higher female than male mortality during childhood in developing countries has recently generated considerable interest. This paper presents additional evidence on this subject, based upon an analysis of longitudinal data from children in rural Bangladesh. Initially, the basis for highe...
Ruth Simmons, L Baqee, Michael Koenig, James F. Phillips
Using participant observation data on worker-client exchanges from Bangladesh, this article examines the interface between a government family planning program and the rural women it serves. Case material focuses first on the program function typically identified in the literature: meeting unmet dem...
Vincent Fauveau, Michael Koenig, J. Chakraborty, A. I. Chowdhury
Of a total of 1037 women of reproductive age who died during the period 1976-85 in the Matlab area that was under demographic surveillance, 387 (37%) were maternal deaths. The mean maternal mortality over the 10-year period was 5.5 per 1000 live births (101 per 100 000 women of reproductive age). Ma...
Michael Koenig, Ubaidur Rob, Mehrab Ali Khan, J. Chakraborty et al.
The results of a 1990 knowledge, attitudes, and practice survey in Matlab, Bangladesh, indicate that contraceptive prevalence has risen to 57 percent in the maternal and child health/family planning project area. Between 1984 and 1990 significant increases were registered in the proportions of women...
Thomas K. Burch, James F. Phillips, John A. Ross
Part 1 The role of family planning programmes as a fertility determinant: introduction, James F.Phillips and John A. Ross the role of family planning programmes as a fertility determinant, Ronald Freedman and Deborah Freedman methods for measuring programme impact - a review of applications in the l...
Michael Koenig, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mian Bazle Hossain, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder
We explore the determinants of domestic violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh. We found increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence to be associated with lower risks of violence. The effects of women's status on violence was found to be hi...
Michael Koenig, James F. Phillips, Ruth Simmons, Mehrab Ali Khan
In the nearly ten years of its existence, the Matlab Family Planning and Health Services Project has been characterized by a remarkable rise in contraceptive use and a corresponding decline in fertility. This study examines available evidence on trends in family size preferences in the Matlab area f...
Michael Koenig, N C Roy, Thomas F. McElrath, M Shahidullah et al.
OBJECTIVES: Although maternal tetanus immunization has been shown to be highly effective in the prevention of neonatal tetanus, unresolved questions remain concerning the required minimum number of doses and the resulting duration of effective immunity. This study examined the duration of effective ...