The prevalence of surgical sterilization in a suburban population

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ID10970232
AuthorsNancy Phillips (0000-0001-9127-8363, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 1425 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, California 94596, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume8
Issue2
Pages261-270
Publication date1971-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060614
OpenAlexW4299322490
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

This report presents data on the prevalence of tubal ligations, vasectomies and remedial sterilizing operations among white couples, with wife aged 20–54, who subscribe to a pre-paid medical care program and live in a suburban area near San Francisco. Contraceptive operations, more than two-thirds of which were male vasectomies, were found among 23 per cent of these couples. Some form of sterilizing surgery (contraceptive or remedial) was found among 31 per cent. The prevalence of surgical sterilization, specifically vasectomies, in this population is high compared with that found across the nation or in the Western states in the 1965 National Fertility Study. Variations in the prevalence of tubal ligations and vasectomies by parity, education and religion are described. Their prevalence increases with the parity of the wife, has a marked inverse relationship with education, and is highest when neither husband nor wife is Catholic

Developed country · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family planning · Fertility · Gynecology · Parity (physics · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Sterilization (economics · Tubal ligation · Vasectomy · Wife · Demography · Male Reproductive Health Studies · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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