caa a22 4500 38639718X CHVBK 20180307112142.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000017715 doi S0021932000017715 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000017715 Contraceptive use patterns in Matlab, Bangladesh: insights from a 1984 survey [Elektronische Daten] An experimental maternal and child health and family planning programme has been in existence in Matlab for almost 10 years. During this time the project has achieved remarkable success in the area of family planning. Based upon a 1984 survey, this study examines the pattern of contraceptive use in the Matlab treatment area, and contrasts it with the regular government programme in the neighbouring comparison area. Important differences between the two areas are observed, with the treatment area characterized by substantially higher levels of current contraceptive use, greater reliance upon temporary methods for birth spacing and, among acceptors of sterilization, more prior experimentation with other methods. In the comparison area lower rates of contraceptive use are observed, with heavy reliance upon tubectomy for limiting family size. The findings suggest that an intensive and innovative family planning programme in rural Bangladesh can achieve success not only in terms of contraceptive prevalence, but can also attract users interested in child spacing and others wanting to limit their family size, by offering the widest range of contraceptive methods. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Khan Mehrab Ali International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Smith Caroline International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Akbar Jalaluddin International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Koenig Michael A. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-01), 47-58 0021-9320 21:1<47 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017715 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017715 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Khan Mehrab Ali International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smith Caroline International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Akbar Jalaluddin International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koenig Michael A. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-01), 47-58 0021-9320 21:1<47 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge