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...
Mian Bazle Hossain, James F. Phillips, Thomas Legrand
In this article, we examine the relationship between child mortality and subsequent fertility using prospective longitudinal data on births and childhood deaths occurring to nearly 8000 Bangladeshi mothers observed over the 1982-1993 period, a time of rapid fertility decline. Generalized hazard-regr...
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...
Mian Bazle Hossain, James F. Phillips, Brian W. Pence
In South Asia women are often the primary decision-makers regarding child health care, family health and nutrition. This paper examines the proposition that constraints on women's status adversely affect the survival of their children. Survey data are used to construct indices of women's household a...
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain, Mary Arends‐Kuenning
Experimental studies demonstrating the effectiveness of nonclinical distribution of contraceptives are typically conducted in settings where contraceptive use is low and unmet need is extensive. Determining the long-term role of active outreach programs after initial demand is met represents an incr...
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain
Since 1982, the Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Extension Project has compiled longitudinal panel data on rural women’s contact with household service providers who visit homes to discuss family planning and offer services to women on request. This study tests the hypothesis that home-...
Mian Bazle Hossain, James F. Phillips, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder
Bangladesh society is profoundly gender stratified, and yet male roles in reproductive health processes have not been rigorously investigated. This study examines the association between men's reproductive health knowledge, attitude and behaviour and their wives' subsequent reproductive behaviour us...
Mian Bazle Hossain, James F. Phillips
In 1978, the Bangladesh family planning program launched a national program of outreach services that continues to the present. Young married women were hired and trained to visit women in their homes, offer contraceptive services, provide information, and support sustained use over time. This repor...
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...
Mian Bazle Hossain
With a population of over 131 million and a fertility rate of 29.9 per 1000, population growth constitutes a primary threat to continued economic growth and development in Bangladesh. One strategy that has been used to cease further increases in fertility in Bangladesh involves using family planning...
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain, The Impact of Household Delivery of Family Planning Services on Women's Status in Bangladesh, International Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 2003), pp. 138-145
Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Mian Bazle Hossain
Bangladesh has undergone a considerable decline in fertility, despite the absence of conditions believed to be necessary for such reproductive changes. Indeed, Bangladesh is the only one among the world's twenty poorest countries where such a change has occurred. The paper examines the nature of fer...
Mian Bazle Hossain, James G. Phillips, Thomas Legrand
This Population Council working paper examines the causal structure of the relationship between child mortality events and subsequent fertility during a time of rapid decline in fertility in Bangladesh. Results lend support to the hypothesis of an insurance effect, while demonstrating that its demog...