Little is known about the dynamics of fertility transition in South Africa, though recent studies have begun to shed light on demographic changes in the country. This study presents trends and patterns of fertility observed in a rural South African population. Various demographic and statistical techniques were used to examine fertility patterns in a population of 21,847 women in a rural KwaZul...

iran is a developing country in middle east which has experienced some political and economical turbulence during the past decades. government of iran, after the 1979 islamic revolution, has devoted considerable resources on national health, including the pharmaceutical sector. as a result, health indicators have improved substantially over the past two decadesnd the availability and affordabil...

Total fertility rates were declining from peaks experienced by early 1930s cohorts for 20 successive cohorts. The decline ceased among the 1950s and 1960s cohorts, because fertility deficits of young women were compensated with increased fertility when women reached their late twenties and thirties. The relative stability of completed fertility of these cohorts is attributed to Nordic social po...

to suffer from sharp pain over the splenic reo-fon accompanied by fever, the sharp pains pa?ssed off and were succeeded by a dull'heavy aching pain. For the last twenty days he had experienced rigors, followed by profuse perspiration, with constant fever, the temperature ranging between 99 and 100 in the morning, between 102 and 103-4 in tlie afternoon. At the same time the swelling of the spee...

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