Michelle J. Hindin, Sunita Kishor, Donna Ansara
The goals of this study are threefold: 1) To report the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among currently married or cohabiting women in 10 developing countries; 2) To identify key characteristics in each country including couple characteristics associated with experiencing physical or s...
Joseph Akuze, Hannah Blencowe, Peter Waiswa, Angela Baschieri et al.
BACKGROUND: An estimated 5·1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Household surveys, most notably the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), run in more than 90 countries and are the main data source from the highest burden regions, but data-quality concerns remain. We aimed to comp...
Angela Baschieri, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Joseph Akuze, Doris Kwesiga et al.
BACKGROUND: may underestimate mortality rates particularly for stillbirths. METHODS: and FPH to measure pregnancy outcomes in a household survey in five selected INDEPTH Network sites in Africa and South Asia (Bandim in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau; Dabat in Ethiopia; IgangaMayuge in Uganda; Kintam...
Samarasimha Reddy N, Nayana P. Nair, Jacqueline E. Tate, Varunkumar Thiyagarajan et al.
BACKGROUND: A three-dose, oral rotavirus vaccine (Rotavac) was introduced in the universal immunization program in India in 2016. A prelicensure trial involving 6799 infants was not large enough to detect a small increased risk of intussusception. Postmarketing surveillance data would be useful in a...
Sunita Kishor, Katherine Neitzel
This volume provides a comparative analysis of womens status measures for 25 developing countries that participated in Demographic and Health Surveys. Topics include gender and poverty female headship female education womens work and workload womens marriage patterns and sexual activity the status o...
Laxmi Dutt Bhatta, Ning Wu, Erica Udas, Nand Kishor Agrawal et al.
Wetlands cover 5–10% of the earth’s terrestrial surface. They are important ecosystems that supply goods and services for human wellbeing. Despite their rich biodiversity, social and economic values, wetlands are in immense pressure, and are undergoing constant degradation due to several anthropogen...
Nisha Agrawal, Mohd. Mogees Ansari, Ananda Y. Bandara, Mohano Behara et al.
A new study, "The Status of Women: Indicators for Twenty-Five Countries, DHS Comparative Studies No. 21" by Sunita Kishor and Katherine Neitzel, ranks 25 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Near East, and North Africa based on the status of women there. The 29 in...