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2. Population aging : is Latin America ready?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cotlear,Daniel (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 286 p., Explores three sets of issues. First covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process.
3. Postpartum contraceptive needs in northern Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lathrop,Eva (Author), Telemaque,Youseline (Author), Goedken,Peg (Author), Andes,Karen (Author), Jamieson,Denise J. (Author), and Cwiak,Carrie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-03
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
- Journal Title Details:
- 112(3) : 239-242
- Notes:
- Although 97.9% of women expressed a desire for family-planning counseling before discharge from the postpartum ward, only 6.0% of women received such counseling. Most women wanted to space or limit their pregnancies; 79.8% of women, including those with only 1 child, wanted to choose a contraceptive method before discharge. Providers expressed concern for the volume of induced abortions and maternal deaths within the hospital, which many felt could be averted by improving postpartum family planning.
4. Unmet health needs identified by Haitian women as priorities for attention: a qualitative study
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Peragallo Urrutia,Rachel (Author), Merisier,Delson (Author), Small,Maria (Author), Urrutia,Eugene (Author), Tinfo,Nicole (Author), and Walmer,David K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-06
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Reproductive health matters
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(39) : 93-103
- Notes:
- Investigates Haitian women''s most pressing health needs, barriers to meeting those needs and proposed solutions. The impetus for the study was to get community input into the development of a Family Health Centre in Leogane, Haiti.