Dados es una de las principales publicaciones de ciencias sociales en América Latina. Creada en 1966, publica trabajos inéditos e innovadores, procedentes de investigaciones académicas, de autores brasileños y extranjeros. Editada por IESP-UERJ, tiene como objetivo conciliar el rigor científico y la excelencia académica con un énfasis en el debate público basado en el análisis de temas sustantivos en la sociedad y la política.
Dados vol. 36 n. 3 Rio de Janeiro 1993
Resumen
Female sterilization is Brazil's most common method of birth-control. This paper examines the main social and demographic traits of the sterilized female population, comparing these with the characteristics of the institutions and agents that provide birth-control methods. When demographic variables are controlled through use of a multivariate model, it can be shown that most of those choosing sterilization as a birth-control method are of higher social status. At the same time, increased use of sterilization has accompanied growth of the social security health-care and hospital network, which appears to have extended the method to ever greater numbers of Brazil's relatively needier classes. It is concluded that sterilization has thus spread from more affluent to poorer classes, much as detected in the dissemination and usage of birth-control methods in other societies
O Uso de Contraceptivos no Brasil: Uma Análise da Prevalência da Esterilização Feminina
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