Effects of pregnancy intention, interpregnancy interval and postpartum contraception uptake on child survival: insights from the Indian demographic health surveys

The findings of this paper reinforced an inescapable need for implementing effective programmatic interventions for the quality of FP counselling and monitoring to enhance postpartum modern contraception uptake as a way of helping young women to avert unintended pregnancy and achieve optimal IPI that would eventually lead to improving child survival among infants in India.