Table of Contents
100 relations: Abortion, Age and female fertility, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Anorexia nervosa, Anovulation, Antinatalism, Assisted reproductive technology, Athlete, Autism, Birth control, Birth control movement in the United States, Birth defect, Birth rate, Breastfeeding, Calendar-based contraceptive methods, Chlamydia, Cohort (statistics), Colloquialism, Combined oral contraceptive pill, Demography, Divorce, Easterlin hypothesis, Egg cell, Ejaculation, Family economics, Family planning, Fecundity, Fertilisation, Fertility and intelligence, Fertility clinic, Fertility factor (demography), Fertility preservation, Fertility tourism, Fetus, France, Gary Becker, Genetic disorder, Gestation, Gonorrhea, Historical Social Research, Hormone, Household economics, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human reproduction, Income and fertility, Infant mortality, Infertility, Intrauterine device, Israel, John Bongaarts, ... Expand index (50 more) »
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
Age and female fertility
Female fertility is affected by age and is a major fertility factor for women.
See Fertility and Age and female fertility
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization for advancement of the science and practice of reproductive medicine.
See Fertility and American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN), often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin.
See Fertility and Anorexia nervosa
Anovulation
Anovulation is when the ovaries do not release an oocyte during a menstrual cycle.
Antinatalism
Antinatalism or anti-natalism is a family of philosophical views that are critical of reproduction — they consider coming into existence as it exists presently is immoral.
See Fertility and Antinatalism
Assisted reproductive technology
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes medical procedures used primarily to address infertility.
See Fertility and Assisted reproductive technology
Athlete
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance.
Autism
Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.
Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.
See Fertility and Birth control
Birth control movement in the United States
The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U.S. through education and legalization.
See Fertility and Birth control movement in the United States
Birth defect
A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is an abnormal condition that is present at birth regardless of its cause.
See Fertility and Birth defect
Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding, variously known as chestfeeding or nursing, is the process where breast milk is fed to a child.
See Fertility and Breastfeeding
Calendar-based contraceptive methods
Calendar-based methods are various methods of estimating a woman's likelihood of fertility, based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles.
See Fertility and Calendar-based contraceptive methods
Chlamydia
Chlamydia, or more specifically a chlamydia infection, is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
Cohort (statistics)
In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation). Fertility and cohort (statistics) are demography.
See Fertility and Cohort (statistics)
Colloquialism
Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.
See Fertility and Colloquialism
Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.
See Fertility and Combined oral contraceptive pill
Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
Divorce
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.
Easterlin hypothesis
The Easterlin hypothesis (Easterlin 1961, 1969, 1973) states that the positive relationship between income and fertility is dependent on relative income.
See Fertility and Easterlin hypothesis
Egg cell
The egg cell or ovum (ova) is the female reproductive cell, or gamete, in most anisogamous organisms (organisms that reproduce sexually with a larger, female gamete and a smaller, male one).
Ejaculation
Ejaculation is the discharge of semen (the ejaculate; normally containing sperm) through the urethra in men.
Family economics
Family economics applies economic concepts such as production, division of labor, distribution, and decision making to the family.
See Fertility and Family economics
Family planning
Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them.
See Fertility and Family planning
Fecundity
Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
Fertilisation
Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a zygote and initiate its development into a new individual organism or offspring.
See Fertility and Fertilisation
Fertility and intelligence
The relationship between fertility and intelligence has been investigated in many demographic studies.
See Fertility and Fertility and intelligence
Fertility clinic
Fertility clinics are medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course.
See Fertility and Fertility clinic
Fertility factor (demography)
Fertility factors are determinants of the number of children that an individual is likely to have.
See Fertility and Fertility factor (demography)
Fertility preservation
Fertility preservation is the effort to help cancer patients retain their fertility, or ability to procreate.
See Fertility and Fertility preservation
Fertility tourism
Fertility tourism (also referred to as reproductive tourism or cross border reproductive care) is the practice of traveling to another country or jurisdiction for fertility treatment, and may be regarded as a form of medical tourism.
See Fertility and Fertility tourism
Fetus
A fetus or foetus (fetuses, foetuses, rarely feti or foeti) is the unborn offspring that develops from a mammal embryo.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Genetic disorder
A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome.
See Fertility and Genetic disorder
Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).
Gonorrhea
Gonorrhoea or gonorrhea, colloquially known as the clap, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Historical Social Research
Historical Social Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science, social science, cultural studies, and history.
See Fertility and Historical Social Research
Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.
Household economics
Household economics analyses all the decisions made by a household.
See Fertility and Household economics
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom.
See Fertility and Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Human reproduction
Human reproduction is sexual reproduction that results in human fertilization to produce a human offspring.
See Fertility and Human reproduction
Income and fertility
Income and fertility is the association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other.
See Fertility and Income and fertility
Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.
See Fertility and Infant mortality
Infertility
Infertility is the inability of an animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.
Intrauterine device
An intrauterine device (IUD), also known as intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD or ICD) or coil, is a small, often T-shaped birth control device that is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy.
See Fertility and Intrauterine device
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
John Bongaarts
John P. M. Bongaarts (born 1945) is a Dutch-American demographer.
See Fertility and John Bongaarts
Journal of Economic Growth
The Journal of Economic Growth is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics.
See Fertility and Journal of Economic Growth
List of fertility deities
A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with fertility, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops.
See Fertility and List of fertility deities
Live birth (human)
In human reproduction, a live birth occurs when a fetus exits the mother showing any definite sign of life such as voluntary movement, heartbeat, or pulsation of the umbilical cord, for however brief a time and regardless of whether the umbilical cord or placenta are intact. Fertility and live birth (human) are demography.
See Fertility and Live birth (human)
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research.
Menarche
Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female humans.
Menopause
Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of reproduction.
Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is a series of natural changes in hormone production and the structures of the uterus and ovaries of the female reproductive system that makes pregnancy possible.
See Fertility and Menstrual cycle
Miscarriage
Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion, is the death and expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive independently.
Natalism
Natalism (also called pronatalism or the pro-birth position) is a policy paradigm or personal value that promotes the reproduction of human life as an important objective of humanity and therefore advocates high birthrate.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, in England, of the Department of Health and Social Care, that publishes guidelines in four areas.
See Fertility and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Natural fertility
Natural fertility is the fertility that exists without birth control or other medical interventions. Fertility and Natural fertility are demography.
See Fertility and Natural fertility
Nutrition
Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.
Obesity and fertility
Obesity is defined as an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual's ideal body weight.
See Fertility and Obesity and fertility
Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
Oncofertility
Oncofertility is a subfield that bridges oncology and reproductive research to explore and expand options for the reproductive future of cancer survivors.
See Fertility and Oncofertility
Ovary
The ovary is a gonad in the female reproductive system that produces ova.
Paternal age effect
The paternal age effect is the statistical relationship between the father's age at conception and biological effects on the child.
See Fertility and Paternal age effect
Patriotism
Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
Pregnancy rate
Pregnancy rate is the success rate for getting pregnant.
See Fertility and Pregnancy rate
Religiosity
The Oxford English Dictionary defines religiosity as: "Religiousness; religious feeling or belief.
Richard Easterlin
Richard Ainley Easterlin (born 12 January 1926) is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California.
See Fertility and Richard Easterlin
Safe sex
Safe sex is sexual activity using methods or contraceptive devices (such as condoms) to reduce the risk of transmitting or acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially HIV.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.
See Fertility and Schizophrenia
Semen analysis
A semen analysis (plural: semen analyses), also called seminogram or spermiogram, evaluates certain characteristics of a male's semen and the sperm contained therein.
See Fertility and Semen analysis
Semen quality
Semen quality is a measure of male fertility, a measure of the ability of sperm in semen to accomplish fertilization.
See Fertility and Semen quality
Seminiferous tubule
Seminiferous tubules are located within the testicles, and are the specific location of meiosis, and the subsequent creation of male gametes, namely spermatozoa.
See Fertility and Seminiferous tubule
Sex position
A sex position is a positioning of the bodies that people use to engage in sexual intercourse or other sexual activities.
See Fertility and Sex position
Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, health care, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual well-being during all stages of their life.
See Fertility and Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.
See Fertility and Sexual intercourse
Sexual revolution
The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the developed Western world from the 1960s to the 1970s.
See Fertility and Sexual revolution
Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
See Fertility and Sexually transmitted infection
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
Sperm
Sperm (sperm or sperms) is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one).
Sperm motility
Sperm motility describes the ability of sperm to move properly through the female reproductive tract (internal fertilization) or through water (external fertilization) to reach the egg.
See Fertility and Sperm motility
Sterility (physiology)
Sterility is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually.
See Fertility and Sterility (physiology)
Sterilization (medicine)
Sterilization (also spelled sterilisation) is any of a number of medical methods of permanent birth control that intentionally leaves a person unable to reproduce.
See Fertility and Sterilization (medicine)
Stillbirth
Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy, depending on the source.
Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
See Fertility and Sub-replacement fertility
Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
Testicle
A testicle or testis (testes) is the male gonad in all bilaterians, including humans.
Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
See Fertility and Total fertility rate
Tubal ligation
Tubal ligation (commonly known as having one's "tubes tied") is a surgical procedure for female sterilization in which the fallopian tubes are permanently blocked, clipped or removed.
See Fertility and Tubal ligation
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
See Fertility and United Kingdom
Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.
Uterus
The uterus (from Latin uterus,: uteri) or womb is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans, that accommodates the embryonic and fetal development of one or more embryos until birth.
Vagina
In mammals and other animals, the vagina (vaginas or vaginae) is the elastic, muscular reproductive organ of the female genital tract.
Vasectomy
Vasectomy is an elective surgical procedure that results in male sterilization, often as a means of permanent contraception.
Women in the workforce
Since the industrial revolution, participation of women in the workforce outside the home has increased in industrialized nations, with particularly large growth seen in the 20th century.
See Fertility and Women in the workforce
1997 Asian financial crisis
The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s.
See Fertility and 1997 Asian financial crisis
References
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