Abstract
Fertility refers to the reproductive experience of a population. The reproductive experience involves all factors related to sexual behavior, pregnancy, and birth outcome. The number of births as well as the characteristics of those births, along with factors describing the mothers and fathers of babies forms the basis for fertility analysis.
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1 Obstetrical care is probably the only health service for which the “need” and the “demand” are almost synonymous. Once the process (pregnancy) is set into play, it is irreversible. Many heart patients may back out of bypass surgery, but pregnant women – after a point at least – cannot opt out of the process.
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Pol, L.G., Thomas, R.K. (2013). Fertility. In: The Demography of Health and Healthcare. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8903-8_5
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