Ruth Simmons, Rezina Mita, Michael Koenig
This study investigates how employment in family planning affects the status of community workers. The focus is on three critical variables: prestige, professional status, and social influence. The data are derived from a focus-group study conducted in 1987-88 in the Maternal and Child Health and Fa...
Vincent Fauveau, Michael Koenig, Bogdan Wojtyniak
Excess female over male mortality during childhood, well known in the northern Indian subcontinent, is particularly marked in rural Bangladesh. While the determinants of this phenomenon and the respective roles of cultural and economic factors are still debated, little data exist on cause-specific m...
David Bishai, Michael Koenig, Mehrab Ali Khan
OBJECTIVES: This paper asks whether measles vaccination can reduce socioeconomic differentials in under five mortality rates (U5MR) in a setting characterized by extreme poverty and high levels of childhood mortality. DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort study based on quasi experimental design. SETTING: Dat...
Michael Koenig, David Bishai, Mehrab Ali Khan
Although the existence of socioeconomic differentials in infant and childhood mortality in developing countries is well established. little consensus exists as to the most effective approaches to reducing such differentials. This article utilizes longitudinal data from the Matlab study area in rural...
Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Michael Koenig, J. Chakraborty et al.
A total of 542 women aged 15 to 44 years died during the 10-year period 1976 to 1985 in the control area of Matlab, an area with a population of 90,000, representative of many other rural areas of southern Bangladesh. The corresponding age-specific mortality rate was 290 per 100,000 women 15-44 year...
Michael Koenig, Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak
Researchers used data from rural Matlab Bangladesh to examine potential mortality reductions from immunization. 20.5% of all neonatal deaths were attributable to tetanus. These deaths were very high during days 1-2. Nevertheless the number of deaths attributable to tetanus compared to all causes of ...
Michael Koenig, Mian Bazle Hossain, Saifuddin Ahmed, John G. Haaga
A cross-sectional survey of 10368 reproductive-aged women residing in two rural areas in Bangladesh examines the determinants of domestic violence at the individual and community level. The data were derived from the MCH-FP Extension Project of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research...
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain, Ruth Simmons, Michael Koenig
In this article, longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh are used to assess the impact of household visits from family planning workers on contraceptive use. A panel of women was interviewed in a demographic survey and reinterviewed every 90 days for six successive rounds. Regression methods are use...
Vincent Fauveau, J. Chakraborty, A.M. Sarder, Mehrab Ali Khan et al.
Any decision to modify measles immunization strategies away from the use of the conventional vaccine given to children at 9 months of age to the adoption of recently proposed vaccine strains that can be given to 4-6-month-olds will depend on the age distribution of severe cases of measles in the com...
Satvika Chalasani, John B. Casterline, Michael Koenig
The prevention of unwanted births (defined as births not wanted at the time of conception) has long been a fundamental justification for investment of public and private resources in family planning services. Unwanted childbearing is assumed to have detrimental consequences - for the child and for i...
A. I. Chowdhury, Radheshyam Bairagi, Michael Koenig
The effects of family sex composition on fertility preferences and behaviour during the period 1977-88 are examined using longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh. The sex composition of living children was found to be systematically related to fertility preferences and behaviour, with a higher num...
Ruth Simmons, Michael Koenig, A. A. Zahidul Huque
This article presents a microanalysis of interactions between female fieldworkers and women in rural Bangladesh, and a discussion of the broader organizational constraints that hamper service delivery. It is argued that the fieldworker, herself a rural woman, is faced with considerable demand for bo...
Richa Kumari
Michael Koenig
This project provides convincing empirical evidence on the impact of quality of care on contraceptive use and fertility behavior through analysis of a unique longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh. The findings from this project add important new and methodologically rigorous evidence to the em...
Radheshyam Bairagi, Michael Koenig, Khorshed A. Mazumder
This study compared the predictive power of selected nutritional (anthropometric), socioeconomic, and diarrheal disease morbidity variables for subsequent childhood mortality over a 1-year period. The data consisted of observations of approximately 1,900 children aged 6-36 months obtained from a lon...