Social class, prenatal care, maternal age and parity: a study of their interrelation in six Italian centres.
"Multiple Correspondence Analysis was used to describe the complex structure formed by those sociodemographic variables, whose association with the occurrence of prenatal and neonatal deaths and diseases has been most frequently stressed in literature:  social class, prenatal care, maternal age and parity.  The study regards 41,537 women included in a multicentre survey of perinatal preventive medicine, which was carried out, between 1973 and 1979, in six Italian centres...."  It is found that "in all centres there are distinct groups of women characterized by a set of unfavourable factors closely interrelated:  low social class implies lower prenatal care, higher occurrence of precocious or belated childbearing and higher number of pregnancies, often unintended." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND ITA)
Cortinovis
I
I
Boracchi
P
P
De Scrilli
A
A
Milani
S
S
Bertulessi
C
C
Zuliani
G
G
Bevilacqua
G
G
Corchia
C
C
Davanzo
R
R
Selvaggi
L
L
D000367:Age Factors; D001723:Birth Rate; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D005313:Fetal Death; D006262:Health; D006296:Health Services; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007558:Italy; D008423:Maternal Age; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D008430:Maternal-Child Health Centers; D009026:Mortality; D010290:Parents; D010298:Parity; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011295:Prenatal Care; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Age Factors; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Differential Mortality; Economic Factors; Europe; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Fetal Death; Health; Health Services; Infant Mortality; Italy; Maternal Age; Maternal Health Services; Maternal-child Health Services; Mediterranean Countries; Mortality; Neonatal Mortality; Parental Age; Parity; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Prenatal Care; Primary Health Care; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Europe