NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Pesquisa sobre Saúde Familiar no Nordeste Brasil 1991 Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Brazil (BRA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 08/1991 - 12/1991 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representative Summary Part of phase 2 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Age at first sex, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Clinical breast exams, Complete birth history, Contraceptives, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health literacy, Health status, Height, Hospitals, Household water treatment, Housing materials, Immunization, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Multiple births, Oral rehydration therapy, Physical examinations, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichomoniasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight Citation Contributors Macro International, Inc Brazilian Society for Family Welfare (BEMFAM) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Brazilian Society for Family Welfare (BEMFAM), Macro International, Inc. Brazil Demographic and Health Survey 1991. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022