• Editors' Summary
• Credits

1. Exploring the New Evidence
2. Actual Versus Preferred Birth Intervals
3. Contraception for Spacing Births
4. Who Has Shorter Intervals?
5. How Programs Can Help Couples Space Births

• Figures
• Tables
• Side-bars
• Bibliography

• Why are longer intervals better?
• Spacing: A matter of choice
• How to measure intervals
• Women want longer intervals
• Demand for spacing is high
• Infant deaths shorten intervals
• Traditional practices can help
• Health programs can spread the message

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Published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA.

Credits

This report was prepared by Vidya Setty-Venugopal, MPH, and Ushma D. Upadhyay, MPH. Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor. Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by John Fiege, Peter Hammerer, Mónica Jiménez, and Deborah Maenner.

The assistance of the following reviewers is appreciated: Bruno Benavides, Annette Bongiovanni, Agustin Conde-Agudelo, John Coury, Rita Giacaman, Bernard Guyer, Michelle Hindin, William H. Jansen, Miriam H. Labbok, Virginia Lamprecht, Ronald Magarick, Namrata Mathema, Maureen Norton, John M. Pile, María Isabel Plata, Malcolm Potts, Shea Rutstein, Pramilla Senanayake, Shalini Shah, Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Bulbul Sood, J. Joseph Speidel, Isabel Stout, Anne Tinker, John W. Townsend, Ravi K. Verma, and Scott Wittet.

Suggested citation: Setty-Venugopal, V. and Upadhyay, U.D. Birth Spacing: Three to Five Saves Lives. Population Reports, Series L, No. 13. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Population Information Program, Summer 2002.

Jane T. Bertrand, PhD, MBA, Professor and Director, Center for Communication Programs, and Principal Investigator, Population Information Program (PIP)

Ward Rinehart, Project Director, PIP

Anne W. Compton, Deputy Director, PIP, and Chief, POPLINE Digital Services

Hugh M. Rigby, Associate Director, PIP, and Chief, Media/Materials Clearinghouse

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