DETERMINANTS OF THE PREGNANCY PLANNING, ACCORDING TO RACE/COLOR, BRAZIL
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Analyze the pregnancy planning and its determinants according to race/color in women users of public health services. transversal study, conducted with 792 women in São Paulo between 2011 and 2013. It was used the instrument to measure the pregnancy planning London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy, Brazil version. Black women planned less a pregnancy than white; also reported in greater proportion, the first pregnancy at younger ages and had more children. Cohabit with their partner was the most important determinant for planning pregnancy as much among black women as among white (Black: OR=4,20, IC95%: 1,80-9,76; White: OR=4,26, IC95%:1,62-11,19). The higher the educational level, the less chance the black women had to experience an unplanned pregnancy (OR=0,87; IC95%: 0,78-0,97). There are elements that focus equally between white and black women pregnancy planning, for example, the partnership. However, among black women, the increase in the education subsidiary in adopting measures to prevent an unplanned pregnancy.
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