Singh, Susheela; Deidre, Wulf

Estimated levels of Induced Abortion in six latin American Countries
Singh, Susheela; Deidre, Wulf - 1994 - International Family Planning Perspectives, 20, 1, 4-13

Keywords : abortion rate; complications; data analysis; data quality; diseases; family planning; induced abortion; postconception fertility control; pregnancy complications; research methodology; septic abortion; spontaneous abortion; statistics
Countries : Brazil; Caribbean; caribbean; Chile; Colombia; Developing Countries; Dominican Republic; Latin America; Mexico; North America; North, America; Peru; South America

Abstract : In countries where abortion is illegal, a range of approximate levels of induced abortion can be calculated from data on the number of women hospitalized for treatment of abortion complications, after correcting for underreporting and misreporting and adjusting to eliminate spontaneous abortions. An estimated 550,000 women are hospitalized each year as a result of complications from induced abortion in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru. About 2.8 million abortions are estimated to occur in these countries annually when women not hospitalized as a result of induced abortion are taken into account. If the situation in the six countries is assumed to be typical of the entire region, then about 800,000 women are probably hospitalized because of complications of induced abortion in Latin America in a given year, and an estimated 4 million abortions take place. The abortion rate most likely ranges from 23/1000 women aged 15-49 in Mexico to 52/1000 in Peru, and the absolute number ranges from 82,000 in the Dominican Republic to 1.4 million in Brazil. From 17% of pregnancies in Mexico to 35% in Chile are estimated to end in induced abortion. (author's)

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Singh, Susheela; Deidre, Wulf

Niveles estimados del aborto inducido en seis países latinoamericanos
Singh, Susheela; Deidre, Wulf - 1994 - Perspectivas Internacionales en Planificación Familiar, n° especial, 3-13

Keywords : abortion; abortion complications; abortion rate; data analysis; data quality; diseases; family planning; induced abortion; postconception fertility control; pregnancy complications; reproductive health; reproductive health [religious aspects]; research methodology; septic abortion; spontaneous abortion
Countries : Brazil; Caribbean; caribbean; Chile; Colombia; Developing Countries; Dominican Republic; Latin America; Mexico; North America; North, America; Peru; South America

Abstract : In countries where abortion is illegal, a range of approximate levels of induced abortion can be calculated from data on the number of women hospitalized for treatment of abortion complications, after correcting for underreporting and misreporting and adjusting to eliminate spontaneous abortions. An estimated 550,000 women are hospitalized each year as a result of complications from induced abortion in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru. About 2.8 million abortions are estimated to occur in these countries annually when women not hospitalized as a result of induced abortion are taken into account. If the situation in the six countries is assumed to be typical of the entire region, then about 800,000 women are probably hospitalized because of complications of induced abortion in Latin America in a given year, and an estimated 4 million abortions take place. The abortion rate most likely ranges from 23/1000 women aged 15-49 in Mexico to 52/1000 in Peru, and the absolute number ranges from 82,000 in the Dominican Republic to 1.4 million in Brazil. From 17% of pregnancies in Mexico to 35% in Chile are estimated to end in induced abortion. (author's)

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Notes : Español/espagnol/Spanish