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Title:Fertility and breast-feeding in Africa
Author:Mondot-Bernard, J.ISNI
Year:1980
Periodical:African Environment: Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Bulletin
Volume:4
Issue:14-16
Pages:131-150
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:fertility
breastfeeding
Abstract:The abandonment of breast-feeding contributes to nutritional illness and may provoke an increase in the all too familiar high infant death rate during weaning. A high infant mortality rate could bring parents to seek systematically to replace lost offspring, in which case it could be said that breast-feeding has an observable, though indirect effect, on fertility. More importantly, however, is the relationship between the duration of nursing and fertility, discussed in detail in the present article. On the assumption that there is neither abstinence nor contraception, estimates may be made as to the degree of the nursing/fertility relationship. Graph., map, notes, ref., tab.
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