Dr Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi
Areas of expertise
- Demography 4403
- Family And Household Studies 440301
- Population Trends And Policies 440305
- Public Health 4206
- Social Determinants Of Health 420606
- Health Informatics And Information Systems 420308
Research interests
Fertility
Ageing
Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Population projections
Abortion
Family formation and consanguinity marriage
Migration
Researcher's projects
Personal research projects
- Ageing in Australia and Asia
- Fertility transition and population policies in Iran
- Abortion: causes, consequences and policy implications
Shared research projects
- Low fertility and its policy implications in five selected provinces of Iran [Iran NIHR, 2018-2021]
- Asian demographic and human capital population projection: A multi-dimensional multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing on modeling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization in Iran [Funded by ADRI, 2018-2021]
- The role of education attaiments on trends and prospects of cross-sectional study of cohort fertility in Iran [VID and CEPAR, 2017]
- Drivers and Decision Making Processes of Irregular Migration Among Afghans in Iran [Funded by Australia Departmnt of Immigration and Border Protection 2014-2016]
- Demographic Consequences of Asian Disasters: Family Dynamics, Social Capital and Migration Patterns. [Funded by ARC 2012-2015].
- Recent Trends of Fertility in Iran: Application of the Own-Children Method to the 2011 Census [Funded by Iran's SCI, 2013].
- Assessing Unsafe Abortion in Two Islamic Countries: Iran and Indonesia [Funded by WHO, 2010-2011].
- Trends and Level of Fertility in Iran: Application of Own-Children Method to the 2006 Census data [Funded by Statistical Centre of Iran in 2010].
- Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation, funded by Global Development Network [Funded by GDN in 2009].
- Childbearing, Labour Supply, and Women’s Well being in Old Age in Iran [Funded by GERPA in 2008].
- The 2010 Iran Demographic and Health Survey [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
- The 2008 Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (IMES) for Family Health Programs [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
- The 2005 Iran Low Fertility Survey [Funded by Wellcome Trust].
- The 2002 Iran Fertility Transition Survey [Funded by Wellcome Trust].
- The 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
Past student projects
Nasibeh Zanjary, 2012-2016: Successful Ageing in Iran: Conceptualization, Instrument Development and Validation. PhD research project
Publications
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2007, Fertility and contraceptive use dynamics in Iran: Special focus on low fertility regions.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2015, 'Demographic Consequences of the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran', in H. James and P. Douglas (ed.), THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTERS: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, Charles C Thomas Publisher Ltd, unknown.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2015, 'Unintended Pregnancy among Iranian Young Women: Incidence, Correlates and Outcomes', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 95-118.
- McDonald, P, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M et al. 2015, 'An assessment of recent Iranian fertility trends using parity progression ratios', Demographic Research, vol. 32, pp. 1581-1602.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2014, 'Population trends and policies in Iran: The necessity for comprehensive national population plan', Journal of Population Association of Iran, vol. 7, no. 13, pp. 95-117.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Bittles, A 2014, 'Consanguineous marriage, reproductive behaviour and postnatal mortality in contemporary Iran', Human Heredity, vol. 77, no. 1-4, pp. 16-25.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Sadeghi, R, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2013, Demographic and socio-economic situation of youth in Iran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Hashemi, B 2013, Fertility trends and levels over the last four decades in Iran: Application of the Own-children Method of Fertility Estimation to the 1986 to 2011 censuses.
- Hosseini-Chavoshi, M., 2013. Review of Islam and the securitisation of population policies: Muslim states and sustainability, by Katrina. Riddell. Journal of Population Research, 30(1): 97-99.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Glazebrook, D et al. 2012, 'Social and psychological. consequences of abortion in Iran', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 118, no. Supplement 2, pp. S172-S177.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2012, 'Demographic Transition in Iran: Changes and Challenges', in Hans Groth, Alfonso Sousa-Poza (ed.), Population Dynamics in Muslim Countries: Assembling the Jigsaw, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 97-115.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Engelman, M et al. 2011, 'The health of older women after high parity in Taft, Iran', Asian Population Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 263-274.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2011, 'Evolution of fertility, family planning and population policies in Iran', Journal of Knowledge in Islamic University (Daneshgah-E-Eslami), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 8-25.
- Salehi-Isfahani, D, Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2010, 'Family planning and fertility decline in rural Iran: The impact of rural health clinics', Health Economics, vol. 19, pp. 159-180.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2009, The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction, Springer, Dordrect.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Morgan, S, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2009, 'Family change and continuity in Iran: Birth control use before first pregnancy', Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 1309-1324.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Lutz, W, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2008, Education and the World's Most Rapid Fertility Decline in Iran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2008, 'Modernization or Cultural Maintenance: The practices of Consanguineous Marriage in Iran', Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 911-933.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2008, 'The Family and Social Change in Post-Revolutionary Iran', in Kathryn M. Yount and Hoda Rashad (ed.), Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 217-235.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M & McDonald, P 2007, 'The Path to Below Replacement Fertility in the Islamic Republic of Iran', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 91-112.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2006, 'The Iranian Fertility Decline, 1981-1999: An Application of the Synthetic Parity Progression Ratio Method', Population, vol. 61, no. 5-6, pp. 701-718.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P et al. 2005, Fertility Transition in Iran: Evidence from Four Selected Provinces [Persian], Iran Ministry of Health, Tehran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Koosheshi, M et al. 2005, 'Trends and Emerging Issues of Health and Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran', in Thelma Kay (ed.), Emerging Issues of Health and Mortality in the Asian and Pacific Region: Asian Population Studies Series No. 163, United Nations Publishers, Bangkok, pp. 147-160.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, MJ, Hosseini-Chavoshi, M, Aghajanian, A, Delavar, B & Mehryar, A 2004, 'Unintended pregnancies in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Levels and Correlates', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-38.
