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Descriptor English: Birth Intervals
Descriptor Spanish: Intervalo entre Nacimientos
Descriptor intervalos entre nacimientos
Entry term(s) espaciamiento entre nacimientos
Scope note: Amplitud de los intervalos entre nacimientos en las mujeres de una población.
Descriptor Portuguese: Intervalo entre Nascimentos
Descriptor French: Intervalles génésiques
Entry term(s): Birth Interval
Birth Spacing
Birth Spacings
First Birth Interval
First Birth Intervals
Pregnancy Interval
Pregnancy Intervals
Tree number(s): I01.240.361.150
N01.224.361.150
SP3.311.900.898.478.156.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001721
Scope note: The lengths of intervals between births to women in the population.
Annotation: human only; may be used in physiol or family planning context
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Family Characteristics (1968-1979)
Family Planning (1968-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 80; CHILD SPACING was see BIRTH INTERVALS 1979-92
Online Note: use BIRTH INTERVALS to search CHILD SPACING 1979-92
History Note: 80; CHILD SPACING was see BIRTH INTERVALS 1979-92
DeCS ID: 1745
Unique ID: D001721
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/12/19
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Birth Intervals - Preferred
Concept UI M0002584
Scope note The lengths of intervals between births to women in the population.
Preferred term Birth Intervals
Entry term(s) Birth Interval
Birth Spacing
Birth Spacings
Pregnancy Intervals - Broader
Concept UI M0002588
Preferred term Pregnancy Intervals
Entry term(s) Pregnancy Interval
First Birth Intervals - Narrower
Concept UI M0002585
Scope note The time lapsed between marriage and first birth.
Preferred term First Birth Intervals
Entry term(s) First Birth Interval



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