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The incidence of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies among live births from health visitor records
Author(s) -
WHILE ALISON E.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1990.tb00656.x
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , birth records , medicine , live birth , incidence (geometry) , demography , hospital records , health records , environmental health , pregnancy , health care , obstetrics , birth weight , programming language , physics , surgery , optics , sociology , biology , computer science , genetics , economics , economic growth
Summary A survey of health visitor records has indicated that approximately one‐third of pregnancies resulting in live births are unplanned. The data further revealed an association between planning of pregnancies and socio‐demographic variables and use of preventive health care for infants.