Abstract
Eighteen years after ICPD (Cairo, 1994), unsafe abortion (UA), contemplated thereby as a serious Public Health issue, persists in Brazil. This research, conducted in a slum in the outskirts of São Paulo by means of a cross-sectional study, intended estimating the prevalence of women who have had unsafe abortions, identifying the socio-demographic characteristics (SDC) related thereto, and their morbidity. This article refers to the SDC, the variables of which remained in the final model of the Multiple Multinomial Logistic Regression analysis carried out therefor - age at 1st sexual intercourse, number of partners, schooling, ethnicity/color, marital status and abortion acceptance driven by low-income conditions–with an approach intended for the social determinants of health and for the health inequities generated thereby in the case of UA, in an impoverished population. In conclusion, the UA and SDC are influenced by the SDH, creating health inequities in that population. The greatest proportion of women that induced unsafe abortion within this population was represented by black women, with lower income, with less than 4 years of school attendance and single, which indicates health inequalities and inequities.
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