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Percentage of births and fertility rates in adolescents in Mexico (2008-2012): stratification and priorization of municipalities with high risk

Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico, 2015-12, Vol.83 (12), p.760-769

ISSN: 0300-9041 ;PMID: 27290800

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  • Title:
    Percentage of births and fertility rates in adolescents in Mexico (2008-2012): stratification and priorization of municipalities with high risk
  • Author: Reyes-Pablo, Adelmo Eloy ; Navarrete-Hernández, Eduardo ; Canún-Serrano, Sonia ; Valdés-Hernández, Javier
  • Subjects: Adolescent ; Age Factors ; Birth Rate - trends ; Child ; Female ; Gestational Age ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Mexico ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy in Adolescence ; Pregnancy Outcome ; Retrospective Studies ; Stillbirth - epidemiology ; Young Adult
  • Is Part Of: Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico, 2015-12, Vol.83 (12), p.760-769
  • Description: Mexico in 2008 was designed as the first place of adolescent pregnancy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with specific fertility rate (SFR) for 15-1 9years of age of 64.2/1,000 woman at the same age. Estimate of percentage births and SFR in adolescent population at national, state and municipal level in Mexico in 2008-2012 at the total group of adolescents 10 to 1 9 years old and by subgroups of 10-14 and 15 tol 9 years old, identifying the priority municipalities with adolescence pregnancies. Data bases of certificates of live birth and fetal death with gestational age of 22-45 weeks were joined in 2008-2012. A data base of 1 0'585,032 births in 2008-2012 was obtained, 98.9% were live births and 1.1% was stillbirths. The SFR nationwide for the period 2008-2012 were of the order of 3.l for the group of 10-1 4years, 75.3 for 15-19, 39.6 for the total group of 10-19 years and 66.1 for 20 to 49 years per 1000 women for the same age. In the last decade it has increased teen pregnancy as well as the percentage of births and the fertility rate in this age group, worrying situation for the high risk of biological, psychological and social damage that pregnancy early.
  • Publisher: Mexico
  • Language: Spanish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0300-9041
    PMID: 27290800
  • Source: Freely Accessible Journals
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