Delayed child bearing in a Chilean public hospital Niveles socioeconómicos bajo y medio bajo comienzan a postergar la maternidad en Santiago de Chile
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Fuentes, Ariel
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Sequeira, Karina
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Tapia, Alejandro
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2019-10-30T15:22:36Z
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2019-10-30T15:22:36Z
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2019
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Revista medica de Chile, Volumen 147, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 168-172
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07176163
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10.4067/s0034-98872019000200168
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/172293
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BACKGROUND: Postponement of motherhood is one of the most striking sociodemographic changes of modernity. AIM: To evaluate the age of primiparous women giving birth at a public hospital in Santiago, Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study, assessing the age and nationality of all women whose delivery occurred between 2009 and 2017 in a single hospital. RESULTS: A total of 49,254 deliveries were registered: 43% were in primiparous women (73% Chilean and 27% foreign women). The proportion of foreign women increased from 12% in 2009 to more than 60% of total deliveries in 2017. Four percent of primiparous women were aged over 35 years of age and there was a steady increase in the age increase of primiparous women in the nine years of study. There was a higher proportion of normal-weight newborns among foreign women compared to their Chilean counterparts (86 and 81% respectively). CONCLUSIONS: In this sample of women attended at a public hospital, a steady increase in the age at first delivery was noted in a period of nine years. There was also a constant increase in the proportion of foreign women giving birth.