The determinants of delivery care in Kenya
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In this article researchers report on the childbirth delivery care systems in Kenya. The research shows child care delivery is based on a variety of factors including socioeconomic and cultural factors, accessibility to health services, and unobserved factors within families and communities.
Publication Name: Social Biology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0037-766X
Year: 2000
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Premarital childbearing in Northwest Kenya: challenging the concept of illegitimacy
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Data taken from the Turkana pastoralists in northwest Kenya is used to evaluate the hypothesis that the rising rate of premarital fertility in Africa is the result of the breakdown in the family's control over the sexual behavior of adolescents.
Publication Name: Social Biology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0037-766X
Year: 1999
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Reproductive change in Zimbabwe and Kenya: the role of proximate determinants in recent fertility trends
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The author analyzes the factors behind the sharp decline in fertility rates in Zimbabwe and Kenya, beginning in the early 1980s. Determining factors cited include rates of marriage, contraception, postpartum amenorrhea, and sterility.
Publication Name: Social Biology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0037-766X
Year: 1999
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