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The purpose of this study was to explore the social / cultural perceptions of Ghanaians about women with infertility problems. Audio-taped interviews with nineteen (19) key informants were transcribed and analysed. The findings indicate that in traditional Ghanaian society, a high premium is placed on biological parenting and there are specific cultural norms that dictate the attitudes of society towards childless women. Health professionals' knowledge of cultural issues could be of benefit in informing ...
Tópico(s): Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
2008 - University of South Africa | Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
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Summary objectives To determine the prevalence and risk factors of primary and secondary infertility in the four Central African countries of Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic and Gabon. methods Primary infertility was approximated by the percentage of women childless after at least 5 years of marriage. The percentage with no birth at least 5 years subsequent to a previous birth was considered to have secondary infertility. Logistic regression and discrete logistic regression models were ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2003 - Wiley | Tropical Medicine & International Health
Tópico(s): Global Health Care Issues
2018 - Springer Nature | Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning
The effect of famine on mortality in Africa is reviewed. The focus is on the probable biological impacts of food shortage, displacement, and disease. Problems in separating famine mortality data from data on mortality from other causes are also discussed. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)
Tópico(s): Birth, Development, and Health
1993 - Wiley | IDS Bulletin
Summary Data are presented on the twinning rate among Europeans and Negroes. The monozygotic twinning rate is constant; there is, however, considerable variation in the dizygotic rate. The dizygotic rate is higher among Negroes than Europeans. There are also variations within these groups. In particular there seems to be a centre of low twinning rate in south‐west Europe. I should like to thank the following who have gone to great trouble in sending me data: E. A. Barker, Nqutu, Zululand; C. J. ...
Tópico(s): Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
1959 - Wiley | Annals of Human Genetics
The determinants of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa are reviewed. The impact of culture on fertility is well represented in the literature but little is known about fostering or polygyny and their impact on fertility. Strong evidence supports the notion that fertility remains high in Africa due to the entrenched patriarchal system of family and inheritance that distinguishes women as child care providers and child producers. Women are encouraged to have early marriages and are used as exchange ...
Tópico(s): Global Maternal and Child Health
1994 - Wiley | International Social Science Journal
Studies of trends in population changes and epidemiological profiles in the developing world have overwhelmingly relied upon the concepts of demographic, epidemiological, and health transitions, even though their usefulness in describing and understanding population and health trends in developing countries has been repeatedly called into question. The issue is particularly relevant for the study of population health patterns in Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, as the history and experience there ...
Tópico(s): Health disparities and outcomes
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Global Health Action
Through their media images, pastoralists have become "icons" of African traditionalism and unwitting symbols of resistance to the modernist values of development and conservation. Their pictorial fame bears political costs. Popular visual images convey tacit narrative presuppositions that shape public (mis)understanding of pastoral communities, as tacitly pejorative images of pastoralists--most notably of Maasai--proliferate in film, tourist brochures, and advertising, at a time when pastoral communities ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Studies and Ecology
2002 - Taylor & Francis | Visual Anthropology
Is it possible to boost poverty-reducing economic investment and growth in Africa by working with, rather than against, prevailing political-economic realities?That is the question this article seeks to answer.Most African political economies, it is well known, are characterised by high levels of clientelism, corruption and rent-seeking -a constitutive feature of systems frequently called 'patrimonial' or 'neo-patrimonial' in development literature.Working with African realities consequently implies ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2011 - Wiley | IDS Bulletin
This study presents estimated levels of age-specific fertility (ASF) and P/F ratios in South Africa, by selected characteristics for the African population. Data were obtained from the nationwide 1993 Living Standards Survey and adjusted to reflect ASF. The national total fertility rate (TFR) was 3.7 children/woman, or significantly higher than the 2.9 estimated by the 1994 October Household Survey. Fertility was highest in Northern Province (4.5). Three other provinces had over 4.0 TFR: Free State, ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
1997 - Taylor & Francis | Development Southern Africa
* An earlier version of this paper was presented to a conference, “Improving Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things that Work!” sponsored by the Association of African Universities and the World Bank, in Accra, Ghana, September 23–25, 2003.“Revenue supplementation” in higher education refers to shifting higher education costs away from relying mainly (sometimes virtually exclusively) on government, or the taxpayer, and toward parents, students, philanthropists, businesses, and other sources. “ ...
Tópico(s): Higher Education Research Studies
2004 - Brill | Journal of Higher Education in Africa
Flora Mkhonto, Ingrid Hanssen,
To explore and describe the link between culture and dementia care with the focus on the influence of the belief in dementia as witchcraft and people with dementia as witches.In South Africa, especially in townships and rural areas, dementia is often perceived as connected to witchcraft rather than to disease. Persons labelled as witches-mostly older women-may be bullied, ostracised, beaten, stoned, burned, even killed.One strand of findings from a larger international study is presented with in- ...
Tópico(s): Homelessness and Social Issues
2017 - Wiley | Journal of Clinical Nursing
This paper examines the growing problem of violence against older persons, particularly older women, in developing countries in general and in African countries in particular. An attempt is made to set out the nature and scale of the problem, and to examine some consequences of violence for older persons, based on local experience of HelpAge International (HAI) partners. Finally, selected innovative interventions designed and implemented by HAI partners to address the problem are described.
Tópico(s): Elder Abuse and Neglect
2000 - | Southern African Journal of Gerontology
Over the last 40 years, the question of the “African exception” has regularly come to the forefront in the discussion of fertility trends. In the 1980s, there was uncertainty about when fertility decline would commence throughout the region: while fertility was declining at a steady pace in Latin America and Asia, decline was evident in only a minority of sub-Saharan countries and, indeed, some countries showed fertility increase. As of the 1990s there was evidence of fertility decline in most countries ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2017 - Wiley | Population and Development Review
To explore stillbirth risk across gestation in three provinces of South Africa with different antenatal care schedules.Retrospective audit of perinatal death data using South Africa's Perinatal Problem Identification Programme.In 2008, the Basic Antenatal Care Programme was introduced in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, reducing appointments to five visits at booking, 20, 26, 32, 38 weeks and 41 weeks if required. In the Western Cape province seven appointments remained at booking, 20, 26, 32, ...
Tópico(s): Global Health Care Issues
2017 - Wiley | BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers22 Jun 2013The Ethnicity Distraction ? Political Credibility And Partisan Preferences In AfricaAuthors/Editors: Philip KeeferPhilip Keeferhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-5236SectionsAboutPDF (0.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Much of the research on ethnicity, development and conflict implicitly assumes that ethnic groups act collectively in pursuit of their interests. Collective political action ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2010 - | World Bank policy research working paper
Charlotte Watts, Susannah Mayhew,
More than a decade ago Lori Heise and other advocates against intimate partner violence highlighted the urgent need for stronger links between their cause and the reproductive health movement. Since then the magnitude and implications of violence against women have gained more attention leading to greater recognition and acknowledgment of the negative consequences of violence for womens reproductive health. At the national policy level however violence and reproductive health often remain distinct ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2004 - Guttmacher Institute | International Family Planning Perspectives
Michel Garenne, Veronique Joseph,
If demographic and health surveys have underlined declining fertility trends in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, little is known on the precise timing and the speed of the fertility transition in the continent. This study attempts to fill this gap, by using an innovative approach to the analysis of DHS data and other relevant surveys. The method utilizes fine tuning of fertility trends year by year, for urban and rural areas separately. The paper starts by a case study of the fertility transition ...
Tópico(s): Global Maternal and Child Health
2002 - Elsevier BV | World Development
Recent fertility surveys in Africa reveal that a striking majority of women want more children, even among those who practice modern contraception, and that modern contraceptive prevalence is still low for women most motivated to avert pregnancy. This analysis suggests that whereas there is, as yet, little indication of change in conditions anticipated to shift the underlying demand for children, uncertainties attached to successful childraising due to risks of infertility, failure to thrive, disability, ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
1987 - Wiley | Studies in Family Planning
Primrose Z.J. Bimha, Rachelle Chadwick,
This article explores heterosexual childfree women’s decisions and the ways in which they negotiate their childfree identity in the context of pronatalist expectations. A convenience sample of seven women living in South Africa were interviewed about their rationale and experience of being childfree (black = 5; white = 2; age range 22 to 53). Findings following thematic analysis of interview transcripts indicated that the participants’ reasons for making the childfree choice included: familiarity with ...
Tópico(s): Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Psychology in Africa
The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of illicit drug use (IDU) among university students from eight countries in Africa and three countries in the Caribbean. In a cross-sectional survey, data were collected from 7 017 undergraduate university students (mean age 21.1, SD = 2.7, age range of 18–30 years) from 11 countries. Overall, 17.2% and 3.5% reported infrequent (1–9 times) and frequent (10 or more times) IDU in the past 12 months. In multivariate logistic regression ...
Tópico(s): HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Psychology in Africa
Population and Development ReviewVolume 43, Issue S1 p. 3-18 INTRODUCTIONFree Access Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa John B. Casterline, John B. CasterlineSearch for more papers by this author John B. Casterline, John B. CasterlineSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 April 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12055Citations: 14AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text ...
Tópico(s): Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
2017 - Wiley | Population and Development Review
This article delves into the relationship between newspaper readership and civic attitudes, and its e↵ect on economic development.To this end, we investigate the long-term consequences of the introduction of the printing press in the 19th century.In sub-Saharan Africa, Protestant missionaries were the first both to import the printing press technology and to allow the indigenous population to use it.We build a new geocoded dataset locating Protestant missions in 1903.This dataset includes, for each ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2013 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Joseph E. Mbaiwa, Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole,
Abstract This review analyses the potential of tourism to contribute to biodiversity conservation with particular reference to developing countries. In the last quarter of a century, there has been a global concern about the extent of biodiversity decline. Biodiversity decline is partly a result of the overutilization of resources by local communities who live in resource-rich areas. This review makes use of published and unpublished articles and reports on community-based approaches to biodiversity ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2013 - | CABI Reviews
This article reports on a qualitative study about male involvement in parenthood decision making (i.e., decisions related to becoming a first-time parent) in which the focus was on White, heterosexual men. Little is known about the roles and involvement of these men in decision-making processes. They comprise an invisible norm in research as heteronormative assumptions about parenthood cause them to be overlooked. This oversight—exacerbated by the pervasive problem perspective in social science—forms ...
Tópico(s): Reproductive Health and Technologies
2013 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Family Issues
Advances and changes in globalised culture compel psychologists to take cognisance of the wide variety of ways in which families are formed and in which children grow up. Although members of the gay community have in the past usually been associated with a childless lifestyle, gay people are increasingly opting for motherhood and fatherhood by creating families of their own or by continuing to live with their children from former heterosexual relationships. This article addresses the concept of ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2007 - SAGE Publishing | South African Journal of Psychology
There have been profound changes in fertility rates in Asia and Africa in the past two to three decades. The availability of new data allows a closer examination of fertility trends and underlying causes than has hitherto been possible. This collection brings together evidence on fertility decline in India, China, and a number of African countries. The papers examine the role of different explanatory factors in lowering fertility, including female education, declines in child mortality, urbanization, ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2002 - Elsevier BV | World Development
This study examines the relationship between polygyny and child survival in light of conflicting findings reported in a number of studies. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys from six West African countries, the risks of neonatal, postneonatal, and overall infant mortality are estimated. Controlling for a set of social and bio-demographic factors, it is found that substantial risks of mortality are associated with polygyny. A separate analysis explores the possibility that polygyny' ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2002 - Taylor & Francis | Biodemography and Social Biology