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02 NÜFUSBILIM DERGISI. THE TURKISH JOURNAL OF POPULATION STUDIES, 1998, Vol. 20
00.02.1 - IÇDUYGU, Ahmet; SIRKECI, Ibrahim.
Changing dynamics of the migratory regime between Turkey and Arab countries.
People from Turkey have been major participants in international migration for more than three decades. Hundreds of thousands have gone abroad since the early 1960s, particularly to Western Europe, but also, to a much lesser extent, to Australia, and later, in larger numbers than to Australia, to Arab countries, and more recently to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This essay discusses trends and patterns in migration from Turkey to Arab countries since the late 1960s. It relates this migratory movement to the wider context of Turkish emigration. By examining the ongoing migration ties between Turkey and the receiving Arab countries, the paper concludes with a discussion of likely migration flows and their implications.
English - pp. 3-16.
A. Içduygu, Bilkent University, Department of Political Science, Ankara, Turkey.
(TURKEY, ARAB COUNTRIES, EMIGRATION, MIGRATION TRENDS.)
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Problems of collecting information from men in demographic surveys: Experience from the 1988 Turkish Population and Health Survey.
The 1988 Turkish Population and Health Survey data from woman and husband questionnaires were matched to analyse currently married couples' agreement on selected background characteristics and fertility behaviour, family planning behaviour and fertility preferences. The findings indicate that proxy reports of spouses for factual variables such as number and composition of living children or whether wife is currently pregnant are in concordance while the level of agreement declines for factual variables as level of education, age of spouse, ever and current use of contraceptive methods. Far more discrepancies are observed for couple's attitudes and intentions toward family planning and fertility.
English - pp. 17-29.
T. Ünalan, Hacettepe University, Institute of Population Studies, Ankara, Turkey.
(TURKEY, DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS, DATA COLLECTION, QUALITY OF DATA, SEX DIFFERENTIALS.)
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Major barriers to breastfeeding: Education and urbanization.
Breastfeeding is almost universal in Turkey. 95% of all children are breastfed for some period of time. However, breastfeeding duration is beyond the desirable level, and children start to receive supplementary food at an early age. In the light of data derived from the 1993 Turkish Demography and Health Survey, this study was planned to clarify the problems regarding breastfeeding and explores status of children still breastfeeding at 12-23 months, along with the reasons for weaning and the median month for introducing supplementation in the subgroups that are thought to have an impact on breastfeeding (education, domicile, and sex). According to the results obtained from the study, it is found that "breastfeeding status," "insufficient milk" as a reason of weaning, and the median month for starting supplementary food are closely related to place of residence and educational status; in the group where the level of education is high and the residence is in urban areas, it is pointed out that the proportion of children being breastfed declines, problem of milk insufficiency rises, and the median month of starting supplementary food slides to earlier ages. In the same group, boys are introduced earlier to the supplementary food.
English - pp. 31-41.
L. Taskin, Hacettepe University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey.
(TURKEY, BREAST FEEDING, DURATION OF LACTATION, WEANING, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, URBANIZATION, SEX DIFFERENTIALS.)
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00.02.4 - KOÇ, Ismet; KOÇ, Derya.
Decision-making process in marriage formation in Turkey and factors affecting this process [Türkiye'de Evlilige Karar Verme Süreci ve Bu Sürece Etkide Bulunan Faktörler].
The main objective of the study is to answer the question that how does decision-making process in marriage formation work in Turkey? Data used in the study come from the 1993 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. Variables that have possible impact on decision-making process in marriage formation were analysed in the descriptive part of the study. Impact assessment of variables included into the models was examined in the multivariate part of the paper. The results of the study show that the participation of women to decision-making process increases as the marriage cohort is approaching to the survey date. Educational level of women, under the control for other variables (age at first marriage, family pattern, region, type of settlement and working status), has much more powerful effect on decision-making process in marriage formation than the educational level of husbands. The role of women in the process of marriage formation increases as the educational level of women increases.
Turkish - pp. 43-56.
I. Koç, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Nüfus Etütleri Enstitüsü, Ankara, Turkey.
(TURKEY, CONDITION FEMININE, PRISE DE DECISION, MARIAGE.)
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00.02.5 - ELGHFFAR, F. Abd; BHUYAN, K. C.
Socio-economic factors influencing child mortality in north-eastern Libya.
The present study is based on data collected from north-eastern Libya stretching from Benghazi to Emsaad. In this region the child mortality rate per mother is, on an average, 0.53 ± 0.87. Among the investigated mothers 35.7% have lost at least one child during their child bearing period while 11.3% are experienced of multiple child loss. The multiple child loss mothers are, by and large, illiterate, housewives high parity women, low socioeconomic group of women and less prone to breastfeeding. These mothers have the experience of 53.5% of all child deaths. However, education and occupation of mother and number of family members have played a significant role to decrease mortality rate among these multiple child loss mothers. This is observed by discriminant analysis. The same analysis also shows that lower fertility is important factor for no loss of baby.
English - pp. 57-77.
F. A. Elghffar and K. C. Bhuyan, Department of Statistics, Garyounis University, Libya.
(LIBYA, REGIONS, INFANT MORTALITY, CHILD MORTALITY, MORTALITY DETERMINANTS.)
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00.02.6 - ÇILINGIROGLU, Nesrin E.
A new subdiscipline of demography: [Demografide yeni bir alt alan: Saglik demografisi].
The 1980s witnessed the emergence of an applied subdiscipline within demography that is coming to be termed Health Demography. Health Demography can be defined as the application of concepts, contents, methods and techniques of demography to the study of health status, health behaviour and health care. It should be noted that unlike the clinical study of health, the emphasis is on the study of populations and not individuals and health demography is an applied science. In fact, most of those involved with health demography are not demographers but epidemiologists, economists, statisticians, sociologists and others to solve the concrete demography related problems in the delivery of health care. Nevertheless, the vague boundaries of this subdiscipline are becoming increasingly visible, and the 1990s promise to be the era of health demography. The audience of this field is public and private sector policy makers, health planners, health care providers, academic and private sector demographers, health care consultants, health service market analysts and marketing researchers and others dealing with public health issues who wish to know more about how and why demographic conditions (and changes in those conditions) affect the supply and demand for health care, and, conversely, how and why changing health care conditions affect demographic structure.
Turkish - pp. 79-86.
N. E. Çilingiroglu, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
(APPLIED DEMOGRAPHY, PUBLIC HEALTH, MEDICAL DEMOGRAPHY.)
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00.02.7 - ÖZVARIS, Sevkat Bahar; AKIN, Ayse.
Postpartum contraception. A new approach to minimize unmet needs in family planning.
In Turkey, 63% of pregnant women receive antenatal care, and 61% of deliveries (800 thousands of births per year) take place in hospitals. However many women do not receive adequate information about contraception during their contacts with health personnel in those periods. According to a recent study in Turkey 98% of women who plan to use contraception leave the maternity hospital without adopting any method. Due to these concerns about the missed opportunities, a pilot program has been initiated to increase clients' contraceptive knowledge, options and access to postpartum family planning services by the Hacettepe University, Public Health Department of Medical School with the collaboration of the AVSC International and Social Insurance Organization (SSK) in tile Ankara-Etlik Maternity Hospital. Before the program was in operation in SSK Ankara-Etlik Maternity Hospital, only 1.5% of women were receiving IEC on family planning training during antenatal period and also only 2% of women received methods before they were discharged. Shortly after the program was started, total 11.2% of women accepted to use modern contraceptive methods of which being 0.6% minipill, 8.1% IUD and 2.5% tubal ligation during immediate or early postpartum period. The results of this pilot implementation were very encouraging, a program has been started by the MOH to expand this approach nationwide.
English - pp. 87-97.
S. B. Özvaris and A. Akin, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Ankara, Turkey.
(TURKEY, PROGRAMME EVALUATION, HOSPITAL BIRTHS, KNOWLEDGE OF CONTRACEPTIVES, CONTRACEPTIVE TRAINING, IEC.)
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