title: Human reproduction in Bangladesh:  a microanalytic simulation model.
abstract: "This paper presents a microanalytic stochastic model of human reproduction with special features for use in examining reproduction in high mortality populations.  The model builds on prior work by including (a) a beta distribution for fecundability, permitting variations between women and during a woman's childbearing years, (b) fetal deaths and stillbirths that vary with a woman's age, and (c) sterility that varies as a function of two random probability distributions.  New to this model is inclusion of a Weibull survival function for infant and child mortality and a model schedule of postpartum amenorrhoea that depends on the length of breastfeeding."  Consideration is given to the interaction of breast-feeding and early mortality and their effects on human reproduction.  "Input parameters are selected for the population of Bangladesh, and initial results from a Monte Carlo simulation, in which age at marriage varies, are given."
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Edmonston
mesh_terms: D000568:Amenorrhea; D001208:Asia; D001459:Bangladesh; D001695:Biology; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D005298:Fertility; D005313:Fetal Death; D006262:Health; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007246:Infertility; D007774:Lactation; D008393:Marriage; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010827:Physiology; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D011644:Puerperal Disorders; D012098:Reproduction; D012106:Research
keywords: Asia; Bangladesh; Biology; Breast Feeding; Child Mortality; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Fecundability; Fecundity; Fertility; Fetal Death; Health; Infant Mortality; Infant Nutrition; Infertility; Lactation; Marriage; Marriage Age; Marriage Patterns; Maternal Physiology; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; Nuptiality; Nutrition; Physiology; Population; Population Dynamics; Postpartum Amenorrhea; Puerperal Disorders; Puerperium; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Southern Asia