Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Laili Irani Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 136 ISBN: 9783659202001
Описание
Kenya’s urban poor have high fertility rates and great family planning (FP) need. This book studies the impacts of married/cohabiting couples’ characteristics and environmental factors on contraceptive use patterns among urban Kenyans. Data came from baseline population-based surveys from the Measurement, Learning and Evaluation Project in three Kenyan cities: Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. The results show that current contraceptive use and switching patterns vary by household wealth; 62% of poor women were current users compared to 67% of the rich. Poor women were more likely to be using their first method than to have switched methods, suggesting reduced demand/limited access to contraception. In addition, couples had greater odds of using contraceptives if the wife desired fewer children, or both partners admitted to discussing desired number of children/FP recently. FP programs need to identify the urban poor across all urban neighborhoods. Local outreach workers can locate the...
