Abortion, contraceptive use, and adolescent pregnancy among first-year medical students at a major public university in Mexico City

Bibliographic Data

ID14967618
AuthorsAdriana Ortiz-Ortega (El Colegio de México, corresponding author), Guadalupe García de la Torre (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Fernando Galván (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Patricia Cravioto, Francisco Paz (Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía), Claudia Dı́az-Olavarrieta (0000-0002-6964-4109), Claudia Díaz-Olavarrieta, Charlotte Ellertson (Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía), Alejandro Cravioto (0000-0001-7357-0010, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Year2003
Volume14
Issue2
Pages125-130
Publication date2003-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1020-4989 • E-ISSN: 1680-5348
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1020-49892003000700008
PMID14577936
OpenAlexW2009862515
SCIELO_PIDS1020-49892003000700008
LanguageEN
Citations received1

The lower incidence of abortion among the female medical students indicates that when young Mexican women have access to medical information and are highly motivated to avoid unintended pregnancy and abortion, they can do so

Abortion · Developed country · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Gynecology · Incidence (geometry · Latin Americans · Medical abortion · Misoprostol · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Public health · Research methodology · Sociology · Unintended pregnancy · Unsafe abortion · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Male Reproductive Health Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception

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