Women's Health Decline Following (Some) Unintended Births: A Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As many as one-in-three unintended births occur in Africa. These births have the potential to adversely impact women's health, but data and design limitations have complicated efforts to understand their consequences. Moreover, there is growing evidence that women often feel happy about an unintended pregnancy and this heterogeneity may be important for identifying the births that are - and those that are not - harmful to women's health.

Objective

To assess whether having an unintended birth precipitates health declines for young women in a high-fertility, high-morbidity context, and whether women's emotional reaction to the pregnancy foreshadows the consequences of the resulting birth.

Methods

We use closely spaced panel data from 896 young women in Malawi

SUBMITTER: Yeatman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387907 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature