Abortion, contraceptive use, and adolescent pregnancy among first-year medical students at a major public university in Mexico City El aborto, el uso de anticonceptivos y el embarazo en la adolescencia en estudiantes de medicina de una importante universidad pública en México, D.F.

• Main Authors: Adriana Ortiz-Ortega, Guadalupe García de la Torre, Fernando Galván, Patricia Cravioto, Francisco Paz, Claudia Díaz-Olavarrieta, Charlotte Ellertson, Alejandro Cravioto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2003
• Subjects: Abortion; adolescent; pregnancy; contraception; students; Mexico; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Carrera
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/3cff47bfcb5c4897a9030532ca79985a

OBJECTIVE: If properly trained, medical students could become future opinion leaders in health policy and could help the public to understand the consequences of unwanted pregnancies and of abortions. The objective of this study was to analyze the frequency of unwanted pregnancies and induced aborti...