Sociodemographic factors influencing the health of pregnant women: Changes in the arctic countries over the past decades
Treskina N.A. Postoev V.A. Usynina A.A. Grjibovski A.M. Odland J.Ø.
2021Bionika Media Ltd.
Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya (Russian Federation)
2021#2021Issue 65 - 13 pp.
Objective. To study the past decades’ changes in the sociodemographic factors that determine the health of reproductive-aged women in the Arctic countries. Materials and methods. The paper presents a systematic review of studies that evaluate trends in the prevalence of sociodemographic factors that determine the health of reproductive-aged women in the Arctic countries over the past decades. The 1970–2019 publications were sought by the results of cross-sectional, cohort studies of the trend in the MEDLINE and e-LIBRARY databases in Russian and English. The review also includes reports from the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation (RF), the statistical centers of Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Twenty-three studies met the selection criteria. Results. The investigators found pan-Artic trends: an increase in the mean age of primiparas, decreases in the teenage birth rate and in the proportion of married mothers, increases in the proportion of common-law mothers and in that of mothers who did highly skilled labor. By 2018, the mean age of mothers in the RF increased to 28.7 years. The mean age of primiparas in Finland in 2018 was 29.3 years; and that in Norway and Denmark in 2019 was 29.8 and 29.5 years, respectively. The teenage birth rate in the RF fell to 20.7 births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19, but this figure was much higher than that in Canada (8.4), Norway (5.1), Sweden (5.1), Finland (5.8), and Denmark (4.1). The proportion of married puerperas in the USSR in 1970 was 89.4% and that decreased to 78.2% (the RF data) in 2018. In Norway, that of married primiparas almost halved over this period. There was an increase in the proportion of primiparas with upper secondary and higher education. Conclusion. Over the past decades, considerable changes have been identified in the portrait of a pregnant woman, namely: there is an increase in the mean age of primiparas, decreases in the teenage birth rate and in the proportion of married mothers, and increases in the proportion of common-law mothers and in that of mothers who have upper secondary and higher education, and, consequently, are involved in highly skilled labor.
Birth registry , Education , Employment , Marital status , Maternal age
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Northern State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia, 51Troitsky Ave, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russian Federation
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO-7491, Norway
Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan
North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russian Federation
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
Northern State Medical University
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Al Farabi Kazakh National University
West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University
North-Eastern Federal University
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
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