Suboptimal birth spacing practice and its predictors among reproductive-age women in Sub-Saharan African countries: a multilevel mixed-effects modeling with robust Poisson regression

• Main Authors: Kusse Urmale Mare (Author), Kebede Gemeda Sabo (Author), Ahmed Adem Mohammed (Author), Simeon Meskele Leyto (Author), Getahun Fentaw Mulaw (Author), Tsion Mulat Tebeje (Author), Setognal Birara Aychiluhm (Author), Oumer Abdulkadir Ebrahim (Author), Abel Gebre Wuneh (Author), Beminate Lemma Seifu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Despite the availability of exempted family planning services, a significant proportion of women in African countries continue to experience inadequately spaced pregnancies. To the authors' knowledge, evidence of suboptimal birth intervals at the SSA level is lacking and pre...