ABORTION IN VIETNAM - MEASUREMENTS, PUZZLES, AND CONCERNS
ABORTION IN VIETNAM - MEASUREMENTS, PUZZLES, AND CONCERNS
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DOI：
10.2307/2137878
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发表时间：
1994-11-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
GOODKIND, D
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作者：
GOODKIND, D
本报告根据政府统计数据、调查数据和作者1993年全年和1994年部分时间在越南进行的实地调查，总结了目前关于越南堕胎的知识。1992年，越南的官方总堕胎率约为每名妇女2.5个，是亚洲最高的，对于一个平均每名妇女生育3.7个孩子的总生育率仍然很高的国家来说，这令人担忧。越南各省在堕胎率和手术类型方面都有很大差异。在解释越南高堕胎率的假设中，有一些是借鉴了其他堕胎普遍的贫穷社会主义国家的计划生育策略；当前的产前人口政策与缺乏避孕替代品相互作用；在最近的自由市场改革之后，年轻未婚女性怀孕率上升。由于对家庭规模的偏好仍在下降，堕胎率可能会继续上升，除非意外怀孕的发生率能够降低，这是越南人口专家正在努力实现的目标。
This report summarizes current knowledge about abortion in Vietnam, drawing upon government statistics, survey data, and fieldwork undertaken by the author in Vietnam throughout 1993 and part of 1994. The official total abortion rate in Vietnam in 1992 was about 2.5 per woman, the highest in Asia and worrisome for a country with a still-high total fertility rate of 3.7 children per woman. Vietnamese provinces exhibited substantial variation in both the rate of abortion and the type of procedures performed. Among the hypotheses explored to explain Vietnam's high rate of abortion are the borrowing of family planning strategies from other poor socialist states where abortion is common; current antinatal population policies that interact with a lack of contraceptive alternatives; and a rise in pregnancies among young and unmarried women in the wake of recent free-market reforms. Because family-size preferences are still declining, abortion rates may continue to increase unless the incidence of unwanted pregnancy can be reduced, a goal that Vietnamese population specialists are seeking to achieve.