Sterilization in the northeast of Brazil

Barbara Janowitz, James E. Higgins, Walter Rodrigues, Jose Marie Arruda, Jason B. Smith and Leo Morris

Social Science & Medicine, 1985, vol. 20, issue 3, 215-221

Abstract: Results of household surveys carried out in four states in the Northeast of Brazil showed that female sterilization is the most prevalent method among women who want no more choldren. Many women who indicated an interest in tubal ligation, however, had not been sterilized. Access to sterilization depends on the type of hospital in which the child was delivered and the type of delivery the woman had. Over 60% of the sterilized women reported that they had a tubal ligation at the time they were hospitalized for a cesarean delivery. Compared with unsterilized women, the sterilized women are characterized by relatively higher education levels and a greater likelihood of urban residence and were far more likely to have had cesarean deliveries and, therefore, to have qualified for postpartum sterilization on medical grounds.

Date: 1985
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