"The best contraception today is injectable hormonal contraception because you don't need a doctor, it's long-lasting, it enables women to control timing and spacing of birth without a lot of fuss and travel," said Isobel Coleman, director of the women and foreign policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
No less important, argues Mr Cleland, is the impact of family planning on the spacing of births.
Dr. Hal C. Lawrence III, vice president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said contraceptives fit any reasonable definition of preventive health care because they averted unintended pregnancies and allowed women to control the timing, number and spacing of births.
Family planning (easy access to contraceptives) allows women to choose when to start having children, as well as the timing and spacing of births.
This has largely been due to the need for data on age at each birth for women, an input to spacing of births that directly relates to breast cancer risk in early studies [ 4] and is confirmed in our model [ 5] and by others [ 6].
In modern culture there is a mixture of styles, space and birth date of which determines ideographic identity of different ethnic groups.
In the next 2 verses, the Quran lays down the principle of prolonged breastfeeding that physiologically leads to spacing between pregnancies pointing to the permissibility and even encouragement of birth spacing.
to explore and describe midwives perceptions of birth space and clinical risk management and their impact on practice both before and after a move to a new facility.
Unless those cultural and informational barriers are also addressed, many girls and women in developing countries will never be able to determine, for themselves, the number and spacing of their births.
It strongly suggests that women care about the spacing of their births and want to have their pregnancies at least 15 months, but not more than 75 months, apart, corresponding to 2 to 7 years between births.
