Abstract
The World Health Organization, by 2014, estimates that approximately 22 million unsafe abortions take place every year in the world, almost all of them in developing countries. The Millennium Goals, as part of the fifth compendium, focused on maternal health by proposing that member states should reduce maternal mortality to 75% by 2015. To determine, using maternal health indicators, if abortion in Chile is a priority health problem. Data about maternal mortality and its causes between 1982 and 2014, was obtained from the databases available at the Chilean Ministry of Health. Trend analyzes were carried out using linear autoregressive models. Between 1982 and 2012, maternal mortality rates decreased from 51.8 to 18.3 per 100,000 live births. Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium were the first three causes and the last one is abortion. The proportion of abortions due to unspecified causes, including induced abortion, decreased from 36.6% to 26.1% between 2001 and 2012. Abortion is not a public health problem in Chile. To continue reducing maternal mortality, programs for the early detection of risks such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension should be implemented.
Highlights
The World Health Organization, by 2014, estimates that approximately 22 million unsafe abortions take place every year in the world, almost all of them in developing countries
Trend analyzes were carried out using linear autoregressive models
Recuperado a partir de: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/php/WHO_PHP_46_ (part2)_spa.pdf 13
Summary
The World Health Organization, by 2014, estimates that approximately 22 million unsafe abortions take place every year in the world, almost all of them in developing countries. Las Naciones Unidas plantearon como meta que todos los estados deben disminuir la mortalidad materna en 75% para 2015, en cambio, esta ha disminuido en 50% globalmente[1]. T. Valenzuela et al totalmente, 59 países (13,8%) lo permiten para preservar la salud de la mujer, 13 países (21,3%) lo permiten por razones socioeconómicas, y sólo cinco estados de los 193 que integran la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) prohíben totalmente el aborto: Malta, Ciudad del Vaticano, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Chile[3]. Para responder si es el aborto una causa importante de la mortalidad materna y es, por ende, un problema de salud pública en Chile, se analizaron indicadores de salud y la tendencia de ellos, directamente relacionados con el aborto y otros en forma indirecta
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