Determinants of current use of contraception and children ever born in Nepal.

This paper explores the extent to which women's work for earnings, education and couple communication over family planning influence current contraceptive use and children ever born in Nepal. Data came from the 1996 Nepal Family Health Survey. The findings indicate that education has a significant positive influence on current use of contraception and a significant negative influence on children ever born.

Gender relations: husband-wife fertility and family planning decisions in Kenya.

Although Kenya's fertility rate has declined from 6.7 births per woman in the mid-1980s to 5.4 births per woman in 1993 (NCPD, 1994), population growth is still high, yielding a doubling time of 35 years.

Anaemia, macrocytosis, vitamin B12 and folate levels in elderly Zimbabweans.

Objectives: To establish the ranges of full blood count (FBC), vitamin B12 and folate levels and to determine the prevalence of occult haematological abnormalities in older Zimbabweans.

Study Design: Community based cross sectional survey.

Subjects: 278 randomly selected healthy Zimbabweans aged > 65 years.

Hypertension management in Zimbabwe--awareness, treatment and blood pressure control. A community-based study.

Objective: To evaluate the level of awareness of hypertension, treatment and blood pressure control in rural and urban communities in Zimbabwe.

Design: Community-based cross-sectional survey.

Subjects And Setting: 749 male and female heads of households aged > 34 years recruited from alternate households of randomly selected villages in two adjacent rural areas and randomly selected streets in an urban area.