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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Contraceptive use and knowledge about health. [Uso de anticonceptivos y

conocimientos sobre salud.]

AUTHORS

Robles A

SOURCE

In: De los Mayas a la planificacion familiar: demografia del istmo, [edited by] Luis

Rosero Bixby, Anne Pebley, Alicia Bermudez Mendez. San Jose, Costa Rica,

Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Programa Centroamericana de

ABSTRACT

Data from the 1989 Bolivian and 1987 Guatemalan Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) were used to analyze

how knowledge and use of family planning services and of maternal-child health services are related. In both

countries fertility and infant mortality rates were high. Around 70% of women in both countries knew about modern

contraception, but prevalence was under 20% in both. Around 37% of Guatemala's and 56% of Bolivia's population

described themselves as Indian. Indians had significantly higher child mortality rates in both countries. The two

countries had relatively large rural populations, high proportions engaged in agriculture, and low educational levels.

Maternal-child health services were not integrated into family planning services in either country. Both health

systems combined various institutions that were not coordinated, and they had the lowest coverage in Latin America.

Family planning programs were not included in official health programs in either country. The study sample

consisted of the 788 women in the Guatemalan and 934 in the Bolivian DHS who began their first union within the 5

years prior to the survey, were married only once, and had no children prior to the union. Various indicators were

constructed to assess use of child survival medical technologies and family planning services by each woman.

Specific knowledge of oral rehydration solution was selected as a focus because it implies modification of

knowledge. The association between sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge of health, and use of oral

rehydration and family planning in the two countries was assessed in a series of logistic regressions. The form in

which the two countries provided health care impeded simultaneous acquisition of knowledge about health and

family planning, and in both countries the differences between rural and urban family planning services were

considerable. Under these conditions, the relative position of women in ethnic and educational terms had an

important effect on knowledge of medical technologies, but it was not an insuperable barrier to dissemination of

health information. Oral rehydration promotion, for example, was successfully targeted at rural populations with

limited access to health services. Rural residence in either country and ethnicity in Bolivia were not significant

barriers to learning about oral rehydration. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 508-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Contraceptive use and knowledge about health. [Uso de

anticonceptivos y conocimientos sobre salud.]", is(are) Robles A. The source of this article is "In: De los Mayas a la

planificacion familiar: demografia del istmo, [edited by] Luis Rosero Bixby, Anne Pebley, Alicia Bermudez Mendez.

San Jose, Costa Rica, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Programa Centroamericana de Poblacion, 1997.

:323-44.". This article was published in 1997 in Spanish language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 508-

06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 5508

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