Vladimíra Kantorová
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 273246 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vladimíra Kantorová |
| NOMBRES | Vladimíra |
| APELLIDO | Kantorová |
| FIRMA | KANTOROVÁ V |
| AFILIACIONES | United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2960-5930 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Long‐Term Trends in Cohort Fertility
This study presents the first global dataset of fertility estimates and projections for cohorts of women born between 1935 and 2055. Leveraging the World Population Prospects 2024 revision, which provides single‐year single‐age fertility indicators for 1950–2100, we reconstructed cohort fertility profiles for all countries. These data offer a unique opportunity to analyze cohorts that have completed childbearing and those entering reproductive ag…
A Global Perspective on Trends in the Use of Withdrawal and Periodic Abstinence for Pregnancy Prevention
Periodic abstinence and withdrawal (the dominant methods in the “traditional methods” category) have been used to prevent pregnancy in both historical and contemporary contexts and, in some countries, continue to be used despite increased availability and use of modern methods. Yet research on family planning programs and contraceptive methods often focuses solely on modern contraceptive methods, thereby overlooking trends and patterns of traditi…
World Contraceptive Use
Every two years, the United Nations publishes World Contraceptive Use , a harmonized data compilation of survey‐based estimates of contraceptive use by method, age, and marital status. These data are used by the United Nations for the global monitoring of the progress towards achieving internationally agreed goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 3, and are aimed as a resource for policymakers, advocates, and researchers. The goal of the d…
Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus
The Programme of Action adopted after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and later the Beijing Declaration, affirmed commitments to the human right to decide on the number and spacing of one's children and have the information and means to do so. In this study, we estimate trends related to this component of reproductive agency—undesired births per thousand women who want to avoid pregnancy, the conditional undesir…
Contraceptive Change and Fertility Transition
Over the past half-century, most countries have made progress through their demographic transitions with continuing declines in mortality and fertility. The major driver of fertility decline has been the adoption of contraception by women of reproductive age who increasingly desire smaller families. This paper documents the massive changes in contraceptive behavior that have occurred since 1970 at the global and regional levels and examines contr…
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE: We propose a pr…
Setting Health Targets Using Information from Probabilistic Projections
Broad and aspirational targets to meet health service needs are useful for advocacy, but setting measurable, time-defined targets for accelerated yet feasible progress is necessary for national monitoring and planning purposes. Information from probabilistic projections of health outcomes and service coverage can be used to set country-specific targets that reflect different starting points and rates of change. We show the utility of this approac…
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
Alignment between Desires and Outcomes among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy
Since childbearing desires, and trends in these desires, differ across populations, the inclusion of women who want to become pregnant in the denominator for unintended pregnancy rates complicates interpretation of intercountry differences and trends over time. To address this limitation, we propose a rate that is the ratio of the number of unintended pregnancies to the number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy; we term these conditional rates. …
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions
Continued rapid population growth in sub-Saharan Africa is driven predominantly by high fertility. Contraceptive use was a key determinant of past fertility transitions. An analysis of this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa can yield a better understandin
Sexual activity by marital status and age
This paper presents an analysis of trends in sexual activity by marital status and age, and their associations with contraceptive use. Understanding levels of, and trends in, sexual activity is important for assessing the needs for family planning services and for analysing commonly used family planning indicators. Data were taken from 220 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) and 62 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICSs) to provide insights …
Monitoring the status of selected health related sustainable development goals
Our analysis shows the benefit of UN interagency monitoring which prioritizes transparent country data sources, UN population estimates and life tables, and rigorous but replicable modelling methods. Countries are supported to build capacity for data collection, analysis and reporting. Through these monitoring efforts we support countries to tackle even the most intransient health issues, including the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 that is revers…
Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections
In 2015, governments adopted 17 internationally agreed goals to ensure progress and well‐being in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. These new goals present a challenge for countries to set empirical targets that are ambitious yet achievable and that can account for different starting points and rates of progress. We used probabilistic projections of family planning indicators, based on a global data se…
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility decline in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa has thus far started later and proceeded more slowly than in countries in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean undergoing the transition in fertility since the 1950s from high levels to near-replacement or even below-replacement levels (Bongaarts and Casterline 2013). Yet there is considerable variation among countries in sub-Saharan Africa: in the duration and magnitude of fertility d…
National, regional, and global rates and trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning between 1990 and 2015
Czech Republic
Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has been postponed and period fertility rates have fallen to very low
Education and Entry into Motherhood
The Czech Republic presently shows one of the lowest total fertility rates (TFR) in Europe. A decline in period fertility followed the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy that started in 1990. In this study, we investig
Demographic Shifts in the Czech Republic after 1989
Demographic Shifts in the Czech Republic after 1989
Czech Republic
Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has been postponed and period fertility rates have fallen to very low
Education and Entry into Motherhood
The Czech Republic presently shows one of the lowest total fertility rates (TFR) in Europe. A decline in period fertility followed the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy that started in 1990. In this study, we investig
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility decline in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa has thus far started later and proceeded more slowly than in countries in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean undergoing the transition in fertility since the 1950s from high levels to near-replacement or even below-replacement levels (Bongaarts and Casterline 2013). Yet there is considerable variation among countries in sub-Saharan Africa: in the duration and magnitude of fertility d…
Alignment between Desires and Outcomes among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy
Since childbearing desires, and trends in these desires, differ across populations, the inclusion of women who want to become pregnant in the denominator for unintended pregnancy rates complicates interpretation of intercountry differences and trends over time. To address this limitation, we propose a rate that is the ratio of the number of unintended pregnancies to the number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy; we term these conditional rates. …
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions
Continued rapid population growth in sub-Saharan Africa is driven predominantly by high fertility. Contraceptive use was a key determinant of past fertility transitions. An analysis of this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa can yield a better understandin
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
Contraceptive Change and Fertility Transition
Over the past half-century, most countries have made progress through their demographic transitions with continuing declines in mortality and fertility. The major driver of fertility decline has been the adoption of contraception by women of reproductive age who increasingly desire smaller families. This paper documents the massive changes in contraceptive behavior that have occurred since 1970 at the global and regional levels and examines contr…
Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections
In 2015, governments adopted 17 internationally agreed goals to ensure progress and well‐being in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. These new goals present a challenge for countries to set empirical targets that are ambitious yet achievable and that can account for different starting points and rates of progress. We used probabilistic projections of family planning indicators, based on a global data se…
Demographic Shifts in the Czech Republic after 1989
Education and Entry into Motherhood
The Czech Republic presently shows one of the lowest total fertility rates (TFR) in Europe. A decline in period fertility followed the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy that started in 1990. In this study, we investig
Czech Republic
Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has been postponed and period fertility rates have fallen to very low
National, regional, and global rates and trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning between 1990 and 2015
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility decline in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa has thus far started later and proceeded more slowly than in countries in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean undergoing the transition in fertility since the 1950s from high levels to near-replacement or even below-replacement levels (Bongaarts and Casterline 2013). Yet there is considerable variation among countries in sub-Saharan Africa: in the duration and magnitude of fertility d…
Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections
In 2015, governments adopted 17 internationally agreed goals to ensure progress and well‐being in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. These new goals present a challenge for countries to set empirical targets that are ambitious yet achievable and that can account for different starting points and rates of progress. We used probabilistic projections of family planning indicators, based on a global data se…
Sexual activity by marital status and age
This paper presents an analysis of trends in sexual activity by marital status and age, and their associations with contraceptive use. Understanding levels of, and trends in, sexual activity is important for assessing the needs for family planning services and for analysing commonly used family planning indicators. Data were taken from 220 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) and 62 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICSs) to provide insights …
Monitoring the status of selected health related sustainable development goals
Our analysis shows the benefit of UN interagency monitoring which prioritizes transparent country data sources, UN population estimates and life tables, and rigorous but replicable modelling methods. Countries are supported to build capacity for data collection, analysis and reporting. Through these monitoring efforts we support countries to tackle even the most intransient health issues, including the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 that is revers…
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions
Continued rapid population growth in sub-Saharan Africa is driven predominantly by high fertility. Contraceptive use was a key determinant of past fertility transitions. An analysis of this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa can yield a better understandin
Setting Health Targets Using Information from Probabilistic Projections
Broad and aspirational targets to meet health service needs are useful for advocacy, but setting measurable, time-defined targets for accelerated yet feasible progress is necessary for national monitoring and planning purposes. Information from probabilistic projections of health outcomes and service coverage can be used to set country-specific targets that reflect different starting points and rates of change. We show the utility of this approac…
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
Alignment between Desires and Outcomes among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy
Since childbearing desires, and trends in these desires, differ across populations, the inclusion of women who want to become pregnant in the denominator for unintended pregnancy rates complicates interpretation of intercountry differences and trends over time. To address this limitation, we propose a rate that is the ratio of the number of unintended pregnancies to the number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy; we term these conditional rates. …
Contraceptive Change and Fertility Transition
Over the past half-century, most countries have made progress through their demographic transitions with continuing declines in mortality and fertility. The major driver of fertility decline has been the adoption of contraception by women of reproductive age who increasingly desire smaller families. This paper documents the massive changes in contraceptive behavior that have occurred since 1970 at the global and regional levels and examines contr…
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE: We propose a pr…
World Contraceptive Use
Every two years, the United Nations publishes World Contraceptive Use , a harmonized data compilation of survey‐based estimates of contraceptive use by method, age, and marital status. These data are used by the United Nations for the global monitoring of the progress towards achieving internationally agreed goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 3, and are aimed as a resource for policymakers, advocates, and researchers. The goal of the d…
Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus
The Programme of Action adopted after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and later the Beijing Declaration, affirmed commitments to the human right to decide on the number and spacing of one's children and have the information and means to do so. In this study, we estimate trends related to this component of reproductive agency—undesired births per thousand women who want to avoid pregnancy, the conditional undesir…
The Long‐Term Trends in Cohort Fertility
This study presents the first global dataset of fertility estimates and projections for cohorts of women born between 1935 and 2055. Leveraging the World Population Prospects 2024 revision, which provides single‐year single‐age fertility indicators for 1950–2100, we reconstructed cohort fertility profiles for all countries. These data offer a unique opportunity to analyze cohorts that have completed childbearing and those entering reproductive ag…
A Global Perspective on Trends in the Use of Withdrawal and Periodic Abstinence for Pregnancy Prevention
Periodic abstinence and withdrawal (the dominant methods in the “traditional methods” category) have been used to prevent pregnancy in both historical and contemporary contexts and, in some countries, continue to be used despite increased availability and use of modern methods. Yet research on family planning programs and contraceptive methods often focuses solely on modern contraceptive methods, thereby overlooking trends and patterns of traditi…
Population (17 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (15 obras) · Demography (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Fertility (10 obras) · Family planning (9 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Research methodology (7 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (6 obras) · Demography (6 obras)