[Delayed child bearing in a Chilean public hospital]

Autor: Ariel, Fuentes, Karina, Sequeira, Alejandro, Tapia
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Revista medica de Chile. 147(2)
ISSN: 0717-6163
Popis: Postponement of motherhood is one of the most striking sociodemographic changes of modernity.To evaluate the age of primiparous women giving birth at a public hospital in Santiago, Chile.Retrospective study, assessing the age and nationality of all women whose delivery occurred between 2009 and 2017 in a single hospital.A total of 49,254 deliveries were registered: 43% were in primiparous women (73% Chilean and 27% foreign women). The proportion of foreign women increased from 12% in 2009 to more than 60% of total deliveries in 2017. Four percent of primiparous women were aged over 35 years of age and there was a steady increase in the age increase of primiparous women in the nine years of study. There was a higher proportion of normal-weight newborns among foreign women compared to their Chilean counterparts (86 and 81% respectively).In this sample of women attended at a public hospital, a steady increase in the age at first delivery was noted in a period of nine years. There was also a constant increase in the proportion of foreign women giving birth.
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