Open AccessMaternal reproductive history: trends and inequalities in four population-based birth cohorts in Pelotas, Brazil, 1982–2015
Author(s) -
Alícia Matijasevich,
Cesar G Victora,
Mariângela Freitas da Silveira,
Fernando C. Wehrmeister,
Bernardo Lessa Horta,
Fernando C. Barros
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyy169
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , socioeconomic status , parity (physics) , population , ethnic group , confidence interval , cohort study , relative risk , birth weight , pregnancy , physics , particle physics , pathology , sociology , biology , anthropology , genetics
Brazil experienced important progress in maternal and child health in recent decades. We aimed at describing secular trends as well as socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in reproductive history indicators (birth spacing, previous adverse perinatal outcome, parity and multiple births) over a 33-year span.