Contraceptive sterilization in four Latin American countries

McCarthy, J.

Journal of Biosocial Science 14(2): 189-201

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9320
PMID: 7076696
DOI: 10.1017/s0021932000014012
Document Number: 315551
Reports on sterilization rates for women in Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Panama in relation to demographic characteristics. Comparisons are made with nonsterilized women using other efficient contraceptive methods. The sterilization rates range from 0.161 in Colombia to 0.552 in Panama; births averted are calculated as 1/4 in Colombia, 1/2 in Costa Rica, and 1 in the Dominican Republic and Panama.

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