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REPRODUCTION, RISK AND REALITY: FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN NORTHERN VIETNAM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1998

PAMINA M. GORBACH ,
DAO T. KHANH HOA ,
AMY TSUI  and
VU QUY NHAN
PAMINA M. GORBACH
Affiliation:
Department of Maternal and Child Health and the Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
DAO T. KHANH HOA
Affiliation:
National Committee for Population and Family Planning, Hanoi
AMY TSUI
Affiliation:
Department of Maternal and Child Health and the Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
VU QUY NHAN
Affiliation:
National Committee for Population and Family Planning, Hanoi
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Abstract

In collaboration with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning, a study was conducted in 1994 in two Vietnamese communes to provide community level information on women's reproductive health and behaviours. A survey of 504 rural and 523 urban women collected five-year histories of reproduction, contraception, abortion and symptoms of Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI). This analysis focuses on the relationships between women's individual characteristics, use of family planning and abortion, and reported RTI symptoms. The findings reveal that IUDs do not raise women's likelihood of experiencing RTI symptoms in either commune. A recent abortion, however, strongly increases women's likelihood of having RTI symptoms in the rural commune, while low socio-economic status is associated with RTI symptoms in the urban commune.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1998 , pp. 393 - 409
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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