Health Programs and Population Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4120531 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Preston (0000-0001-7038-9689, corresponding author), Samuel H Preston |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189 |
| Publication date | 1975-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1972220 |
| OpenAlex | W2319675654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
It has become conventional demographic wisdom that the level of mortality in a population has a substantial positive influence on its level of fertility. Evidence in support of this proposed relationship has been flawed and recent studies of reproductive-age couples suggest that the influence is probably much weaker than previously supposed. The childbearing of individual couples in developing countries is not highly responsive to child deaths that have occurred within their family. It is possible that there exist powerful extra-familial effects of mortality on fertility. But if so they operate with a substantial lag and have not yet been verified. Mortality reduction programs do not offer a promising path for lowering rates of population growth. (authors)
Environmental health · Population · Population growth · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine
Has Fecundability been Declining in Recent Years in Developed Countries?
Social Science Research on Population
The Impact of Development and Population Policies on Fertility in India
Fertility Desires and Child Mortality Experience Among Guatemalan Women
The Effects of Improved Child Survival on Family Planning Practice and Fertility
Disease and Development
Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing
Health Planning and Population Policy in Africa
Population and development
Nutrition and the fertility of younger women in Kinshasa, Zaire
Child mortality risk and fertility
The effect of infant death on subsequent fertility in Korea and the role of family planning
Measuring the impact of child mortality on fertility
Estimating the Effect of Child Mortality on the Number of Births
Evaluation of the Olsen Technique For Estimating the Fertility Response to Child Mortality
Seasonal fertility cycles in rural Egypt
Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003
The effects of infant deaths on the risk of subsequent birth
Part four
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2024 (49) |
| Highly cited | No |