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This database contains references to peer-reviewed journal articles published since Oct.2003 with research based entirely or primarily on DHS data. Users can search for articles by topic, country, and journal. If you are aware of similar articles published since Oct.2003 that should be included in the database, please send a copy (best), abstract (good), or full citation to: references@dhsprogram.com.

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Abortion (22) Accepting attitudes toward people living with HIV (PLHIV) (6) Adult health (30) Adult height (2) Adult mortality (13) Aging (8) Alcohol consumption (16) Anemia (58) Antenatal care (104) Asthma (7) Biomarkers (1) Birth interval (27) Birth weight (40) Blood pressure (4) Body Mass Index (BMI) (41) Breastfeeding (56) Bronchitis (1) Calendar Data (1) Cesarean section (25) Child health (500) Child height (2) Child labor (7) Child marriage (11) Childhood mortality (229) Children under five (160) Chronic Energy Deficiency (CED) (1) Circumcision (11) Climate (7) Community influences (35) Contraception (246) Data collection (5) Data models (23) Data quality (13) Data use (9) Delivery care (104) Demographic indicators (18) Diabetes (13) Diarrhea (27) District-level estimates (6) Domestic violence (141) Dowry (2) Economics (50) Education (102) Elderly (4) Employment (17) Environment and natural resources (10) Environmental health (28) Epidemiology (6) Ethnicity (13) Extramarital sex (3) Family planning (82) Family structure (21) Female genital cutting (FGC) (23) Fertility (220) Fertility preferences (39) Fever (16) First intercourse (16) Fistula (4) Food insecurity (9) Gender (88) Gender-based violence (GBV) (19) Genocide (1) GIS/GPS (70) Health (34) Health care utilization (112) Health equity (50) Health policy change (9) Hepatitis B (2) Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) (1) HIV testing (28) HIV/AIDS (236) Household decision-making (18) Household headship (11) Household solid fuel use (17) Hygiene (21) Hypertension (5)

Immunization (104) Inequality (137) Infant mortality (75) Insecticidetreated mosquito nets (ITNs) (28) Institutional births (3) Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) (41) Iodine (3) Iron supplements (22) Lead level (3) Malaria (84) Marriage (70) Mass media (16) Maternal health (242) Maternal mortality (29) Men's health (7) Menarcheal age (1) Menopause (4) Migration (20) Miscarriage (2) Modelling (17) Morbidity (33) Mortality (27) Mother-to-Child Transmission (5) Multiple birth (2) Neonatal mortality (57) Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) (1) Non-response bias (4) Nutrition (366) Obesity (50) Obstetric fistula (3) Orphanhood (23) Paid sex (3) Parity (7) Perinatal mortality (3) Pollution (18) Polygyny (9) Population density (8) Postnatal care (17) Poverty (84) Pregnancy outcomes (26) Public expenditures (4) Race and ethnicity (7) Religion (32) Reproductive health (136) Residence (25) Rural-urban differentials (36) Sampling (5) Sanitation (26) Service utilization (17) Sex preference (13) Sexual behavior (87) Sexual health (4) Sexual violence (12) Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (14) Siblings (12) Son preference (43) Spatial analysis (41) Stillbirths (9) Survey Bias (2) Sustainability (1) Tobacco use (46) Tuberculosis (12) Twinning (5) Unintended pregnancy (33) Unmet need (33) Vitamin A (19) Vitamin D (1) Water supply (15) Water treatment (13) Wealth Index (50) Women's autonomy (37) Women's health (205) Women's height (5) Women's status (53) Women’s empowerment (59) Youth (104)