scholarly journals Induced abortion and COVID-19 as contributing factors to declining fertility in Sardinia

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Corda ◽  
Giovanni Monni ◽  
Federica Murgia ◽  
Alba Piras ◽  
Rosa Maria Ibba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Induced Abortion ◽  
Progressive Decrease ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Proportional Reduction

Abstract Objectives Decreasing fertility implies considerable public health, societal, political, and international consequences. Induced abortion (IA) and the recent COVID-19 pandemic can be contributing factors to it but these have not been adequately studied so far. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relation of IA incidence and the COVID-19 pandemic to declining rates of delivery, as per our Sardinian experience. Methods We analyzed the registered data from the official Italian statistics surveys of deliveries and IA in the last 10 years from 2011 to 2020 in Sardinia. Results A total of 106,557 deliveries occurred and a progressive decrease in the birth rate has been observed. A total of 18,250 IA occurred and a progressive decline has been observed here as well. The ratio between IA and deliveries remained constant over the decade. Between 2011 and 2019 a variation of −4.32% was observed for IA while in the last year, during the COVID-19 pandemic the decrease of the procedures was equal to −12.30%. For the deliveries, a mean variation of the −4.8% was observed between the 2011 and the 2019 while in the last year, during the COVID-19 pandemic the decrease was about −9%. Considering the about 30% reduction of live births between 2011 and 2020, there is an almost proportional reduction in IA. Conclusions Public policy responses to decreasing fertility, especially pronatalist ones, would be provided with evidence base about trends in delivery and IA and women’s decision making.

scholarly journals Commentary: the public health consequences of restricted induced abortion--lessons from Romania.

1992 ◽  
Vol 82 (10) ◽  
pp. 1328-1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Stephenson ◽  
M Wagner ◽  
M Badea ◽  
F Serbanescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Induced Abortion ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Public Health Analytics: A Visual Aid to Interpret the Evidence-Base of Proven Actions on Obesity in the Context of What Needs to be Achieved by Policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. S230
Author(s):  
Ronald Wall ◽  
Christina Bancej ◽  
Howard Morrison ◽  
Claude Nadeau ◽  
Keiko Asakawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Visual Aid

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING, MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1096
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
National Office ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
High Level ◽  
Monthly Variations

AS PART of its Monthly Vital Statistics Report, the National Office of Vital Statistics of the U. S. Public Health Service publishes each year an estimate of the most important statistical indices of the previous year. In the March 12, 1957 issue of the Report, Vol. 5, No. 13, Part 1, the annual summary of provisional vital statistics for the year is presented. Monthly variations for the four major indices, Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Infant Mortality, are shown in Figure 1, [See FIG. 1. in Source Pdf.] which compares the data for 1956 with 1955. It is to be noted that the data are provisional and subject to connection. Previous experience, however, indicates little likelihood of more than very minor changes. Births in 1956 climbed to another recordbreaking high with registered births reaching 4,168,000, on a rate of 24.9 pen 1,000 population. Addition of an estimate for unregistered births raises the total to 4,220,000, or a rate of 25.2. The birth rate has maintained a consistently high level for more than a decade, having achieved a high point of 26.6 in 1947. As in previous years, highest rates centered in the south, lowest in the northeastern areas of the country. Deaths in 1956 totaled 1,565,000, a rate of 9.4 per 1,000 population, slightly higher than the rate of 9.3 in 1955 and the low of 9.2 reached in 1954.

scholarly journals Analysis of corporate political activity strategies of the food industry: evidence from France

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 3407-3421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Mialon ◽  
Jonathan Mialon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Corporate Political Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Different Sources

AbstractObjectiveTo identify the corporate political activity (CPA) of major food industry actors in France.DesignWe followed an approach based on information available in the public domain. Different sources of information, freely accessible to the public, were monitored.Setting/SubjectsData were collected and analysed between March and August 2015. Five actors were selected: ANIA (Association Nationale des Industries Agroalimentaires/National Association of Agribusiness Industries); Coca-Cola; McDonald’s; Nestlé; and Carrefour.ResultsOur analysis shows that the main practices used by Coca-Cola and McDonald’s were the framing of diet and public health issues in ways favourable to the company, and their involvement in the community. ANIA primarily used the ‘information and messaging’ strategy (e.g. by promoting deregulation and shaping the evidence base on diet- and public health-related issues), as well as the ‘policy substitution’ strategy. Nestlé framed diet and public health issues, and shaped the evidence base on diet- and public health-related issues. Carrefour particularly sought involvement in the community.ConclusionsWe found that, in 2015, the food industry in France was using CPA practices that were also used by other industries in the past, such as the tobacco and alcohol industries. Because most, if not all, of these practices proved detrimental to public health when used by the tobacco industry, we propose that the precautionary principle should guide decisions when engaging or interacting with the food industry.

Films for public health: developing the evidence base for films to support public health goals

2017 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
pp. 260-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Botchway ◽  
Silvana Bettiol ◽  
May van Schalkwyk ◽  
Deon Simpson ◽  
Gerd Flodgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Health Goals

scholarly journals Patterns of induced abortion in urban area of Southeastern region, Brazil

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca de Souza e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Single Women ◽  
Induced Abortion ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Contraceptive Methods ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Induced Abortions ◽  
Reproductive Life ◽  
Southeastern Region ◽  
Fertile Women

OBJECTIVE: To assess the behavior of induced abortion as a function of certain demographic variables, for the population of fertile women (15 to 49 years old) residing in the Vila Madalena subdistrict S. Paulo (Brazil). MATERIAL AND METHOD: Two population samples were selected. One sample, with 996 women, investigated the incidence of induced abortions during 1987, using the RRT. In the other, involving 1,004 women, the same information was detected through a conventional approach. In both samples, the induced abortion occurring during the reproductive life was recorded in direct fashion. Though this analysis refers only to information about past abortions, that is by 2,000 women -, it should be noted that it is exactly the RRT that lends credibility to the found or results given results. CONCLUSION: The analysis furnishes evidence showing that single women, young women between the ages of 15 and 19, women who have not had live births, women who have a number of children below the expected ideal, women who use contraceptive methods (especially inefficient ones) and women who do not have any restrictions as to abortion constitute the categories most inclined to resort to induced abortion. This grouping suggests the existence of interrelationships between categories, that is, each of these categories is probably composed primarily of the same women, those who are at the beginning of their reproductive lives.

Provisioning of Public Health Can Be Designed to Anticipate Public Policy Responses

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Darla V. Lindberg ◽  
Rachel A. Smith ◽  
Timothy C. Reluga
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Responses

scholarly journals A tool to guide the process of integrating health system responses to public health problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilahun Nigatu Haregu ◽  
Geoffrey Setswe ◽  
Jullian Elliott ◽  
Brian Oldenburg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Model System ◽  
System Level ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Integrated Architecture

An integrated model of health system responses to public health problems is considered to be the most preferable approach. Accordingly, there are several models that stipulate what an integrated architecture should look like. However, tools that can guide the overall process of integration are lacking. This tool is designed to guide the entire process of integration of health system responses to major public health problems. It is developed by taking into account the contexts of health systems of developing countries and the emergence of double-burden of chronic diseases in these settings. Chronic diseases – HIV/AIDS and NCDs – represented the evidence base for the development of the model. System level horizontal integration of health system responses were considered in the development of this tool.

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