The study is available in: the University of Jordan, Center of Thesis Deposit.
Main objective: to know what reproductive health is, its importance, its elements, and the impact of some social variables on its elements.
Time and geographic zone: 2000, Wehdat camp.
Source of information: a field study of a stratified sample consisting of 400 qualified women in Wehdat camp.
Methodology: descriptive statistics analysis using percentage, averages, F-Test and hypothesis test.
Key results:
The study identified some of the characteristics of the study population. The most important characteristics are:
- Overall fertility ratio was 4 births per woman in the camp
- Average birth spacing was 26.2 months
- Current ratio of family planning methods was 53.85 and the average breast feeding period reached 15.4 months.
- 53.3% of women in the camp underwent miscarriage at least once.
- Overall miscarriage ratio was 1.3 times per woman.
- Infant death ratio amounted to 35.7 \1000
- Analysis showed positive relationship between wives educational level, the number of births, and wives current job.
- There is an inverse prportional relationship between breast-feeding period and womens educational level.
Recommendations:
The study recommended promoting educational and communication programs to emphasize the benefits of family planning in a bid to postpone or stop births and to provide free family planning methods due to their low cost and great benefits.
