Fertility, Reproduction Decision-Making and Education: Case Studies

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• Couple education was said to be the main reason for the low use of family planning in Eastern Sudan. The strongest determinants for family planning in these places are the husband’s disapproval and their religious beliefs. It is also determined that couples educational status and women’s occupation affects the unmet needs for family planning. • In most population, increasing women’s education helped to decrease the unmet needs for family planning. In Uganda, women with secondary or higher education has lower unmet family planning needs compared to Kenya with women with less than secondary education with two times as much family planning needs. • Access to health facilities and information about contraception was improved to those educated women. Similarly, beside the current study, husband’s education in many African countries was related with the use of family planning .Unfortunately, among Sudanese women, there is high level of illiteracy which was the significant foreteller for maternal morbidity and mortality in the different regions of Sudan including the Eastern part. Sudan...

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