Armed Conflict and Pregnancy Termination: Evidence from Burkina Faso.

IF 1.1 Q3 DEMOGRAPHY
Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-29 DOI:10.1007/s40980-024-00129-9
Maya Luetke, Kathryn Grace, Jiao Yu, Matthew Gunther
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Abstract

The mental and physical toll of conflict-related stressors-such as safety concerns, food insecurity, and loss of income-may have significant and deleterious impacts on birth outcomes among pregnant women. Armed conflict disrupts people's lives, often limiting access to essential resources and healthcare services (e.g., abortion-related healthcare). We investigated the relationship between armed conflict and pregnancy termination among pregnant women (aged 15-49) in Burkina Faso using health data from the Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) project and armed conflict event data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Project (UCDP). We found that pregnancies exposed to armed conflict in the first trimester were less likely to end in pregnancy termination compared to pregnancies that were not exposed to armed conflict in the first trimester, though we are unable to disentangle spontaneous versus induced terminations in these data. Thus, we cannot determine whether this finding is driven largely by one type of abortion or another, nor can we be sure that the effects are not counteracting each other. Because interruption of healthcare access is a common consequence of armed conflict, abortion-related services should be targeted and adapted to suit the specific needs and obstacles faced by pregnant women in conflict-affected places.

武装冲突与终止妊娠:来自布基纳法索的证据。
与冲突有关的压力因素(如安全问题、粮食不安全和收入损失)造成的精神和身体损失可能对孕妇的分娩结果产生重大和有害的影响。武装冲突扰乱了人们的生活,往往限制了获得基本资源和保健服务(例如与堕胎有关的保健服务)的机会。我们使用来自行动绩效监测(PMA)项目的健康数据和来自乌普萨拉冲突数据项目(UCDP)的武装冲突事件数据,调查了布基纳法索15-49岁孕妇的武装冲突与终止妊娠之间的关系。我们发现,妊娠早期暴露于武装冲突的孕妇与妊娠早期未暴露于武装冲突的孕妇相比,终止妊娠的可能性更小,尽管我们无法在这些数据中区分自然终止妊娠和诱发终止妊娠。因此,我们无法确定这一发现在很大程度上是由一种堕胎还是另一种堕胎造成的,我们也无法确定这些影响不会相互抵消。由于中断医疗保健服务是武装冲突的常见后果,与堕胎有关的服务应有针对性,并适应受冲突影响地区孕妇的具体需求和面临的障碍。
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Spatial Demography
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期刊介绍: Spatial Demography focuses on understanding the spatial and spatiotemporal dimension of demographic processes.  More specifically, the journal is interested in submissions that include the innovative use and adoption of spatial concepts, geospatial data, spatial technologies, and spatial analytic methods that further our understanding of demographic and policy-related related questions. The journal publishes both substantive and methodological papers from across the discipline of demography and its related fields (including economics, geography, sociology, anthropology, environmental science) and in applications ranging from local to global scale. In addition to research articles the journal will consider for publication review essays, book reviews, and reports/reviews on data, software, and instructional resources.
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