Thirty-five years later: Long-term effects of the Matlab maternal and child health/family planning program on older women's well-being.

ABSTRACT: Family planning programs are believed to have substantial long-term benefits for women's health and well-being, yet few studies have established either extent or direction of long-term effects. The Matlab, Bangladesh, maternal and child health/family planning (MCH/FP) program afforded a 12-y period of well-documented differential access to services. We evaluate its impacts on women's lifetime fertility, adult health, and economic outcomes 35 y after program initiation. We followed 1,820 women who were of reproductive age during the differential access period (born 1938-1973) from 1978 to 2012 using prospectively collected data from the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System and the 1996 and 2012 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys. We estimated intent-to-treat single-differe

SUBMITTER: Barham T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8409382 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature