Mohammad Amirul Islam

TL;DR: The main contributing factors for under-five malnutrition were found to be child's age, mother's education, father's education and father's occupation, family wealth index, currently breast-feeding, place of delivery and division.

TL;DR: Regression analyses show that age, education, access to TV, inter-spousal communication, current use of family planning and the number of living children significantly determine family planning approval among both men as well as couples, andFamily planning approval was found to be much lower in Sylhet than in the other administrative divisions.

TL;DR: There was a negative relationship between breast-feeding and the current use of contraception indicating a low need for contraception among women who were breast- feeding.

TL;DR: The results suggest that region, place of residence, religion, husband’s desire for children, visits of FP workers, decision-making power on child health care, reading about FP in newspaper/magazine and number of births in three years preceding the survey were significant predictors of unmet need for contraception.

TL;DR: The results show that the probability that a woman from the recent cohort in Sylhet or Chittagong who had a third birth will have a fourth birth is nearly twice that of her counterpart in other regions, and call for specific family planning policy interventions in Sylchet and Chittgong ensuring gender equity, promoting female education and delaying entry into marriage and childbearing.