Niveles socioeconómicos bajo y medio bajo comienzan a postergar la maternidad en Santiago de Chile / Delayed child bearing in a Chilean public hospital
Fuentes, Ariel; Sequeira, Karina; Tapia, Alejandro.
Rev. méd. Chile
; 147(2): 168-172, Feb. 2019. tab, graf
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| LILACS | ID: biblio-1004329
Background:
Postponement of motherhood is one of the most striking sociodemographic changes of modernity.Aim:
To evaluate the age of primiparous women giving birth at a public hospital in Santiago, Chile. Material andMethods:
Retrospective study, assessing the age and nationality of all women whose delivery occurred between 2009 and 2017 in a single hospital.Results:
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).Conclusions:
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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