%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children %@ 978-0-309-04096-9 %D 1989 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1422/contraceptive-use-and-controlled-fertility-health-issues-for-women-and %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1422/contraceptive-use-and-controlled-fertility-health-issues-for-women-and %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 172 %R doi:10.17226/1422 %X These four papers supplement the book Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World by bringing together data and analyses that would otherwise be difficult to obtain in a single source. The topics addressed are an analysis of the relationship between maternal mortality and changing reproductive patterns; the risks and benefits of contraception; the effects of changing reproductive patterns on infant health; and the psychosocial consequences to women of controlled fertility and contraceptive use.