An evolution of socioeconomic related inequality in teenage pregnancy and childbearing in Malawi

Gowokani Chirwa (gowokani@gmail.com), Jacob Mazalale, Gloria Likupe, Dominic Nkhoma, Levison Chiwaula and Jesman Chintsanya

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-16

Abstract: Background: Teenage pregnancies and childbearing are important health concerns in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) including Malawi. Addressing these challenges requires, among other things, an understanding of the socioeconomic determinants of and contributors to the inequalities relating to these outcomes. This study investigated the trends of the inequalities and decomposed the underlying key socioeconomic factors which accounted for the inequalities in teenage pregnancy and childbearing in Malawi. Methods: The study used the 2004, 2010 and 2015–16 series of nationally representative Malawi Demographic Health Survey covering 12,719 women. We used concentration curves to examine the existence of inequalities, and then quantified the extent of inequalities in teenage pregnancies and childbearing using the Erreygers concentration index. Finally, we decomposed concentration index to find out the contribution of the determinants to socioeconomic inequality in teenage pregnancy and childbearing. Results: The teenage pregnancy and childbearing rate averaged 29% (p

Date: 2019
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