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Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Infertility Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Help Received Since 1995.

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العنوان: Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Infertility Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Help Received Since 1995.
المؤلفون: Tierney KI; Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Electronic address: katherine.tierney@wmich.edu., Greil AL; Division of Social Sciences, Alfred University, Alfred, New York., Bell AV; Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
المصدر: Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health [Womens Health Issues] 2024 Jul-Aug; Vol. 34 (4), pp. 401-408. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 01.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9101000 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1878-4321 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10493867 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Womens Health Issues Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Publication: New York, NY : Elsevier Science Publishing
Original Publication: New York, NY : Elsevier, c1990-
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Socioeconomic Factors* , Healthcare Disparities*/ethnology , Patient Acceptance of Health Care*/statistics & numerical data , Patient Acceptance of Health Care*/ethnology , Infertility*/ethnology , Infertility*/therapy , Help-Seeking Behavior*, Humans ; Female ; Prevalence ; Adult ; United States/epidemiology ; Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data ; Pregnancy ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Infertility, Female/ethnology ; Infertility, Female/epidemiology
مستخلص: Background: In the United States, infertility and treatment for infertility are marked by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities. Simultaneously, biomedical advances and increased public health attention toward preventing and addressing infertility have grown. It is not known, however, whether the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities observed in infertility prevalence, help-seeking, or help received have changed over time.
Methods: Using National Survey of Family Growth data (1995 through 2017-2019 cycles), this study applied multivariable logistic regression with interaction terms to investigate whether and how racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in 1) the prevalence of infertility, 2) ever seeking help to become pregnant, and 3) use of common types of medical help (advice, testing, medication for ovulation, surgery for blocked tubes, and artificial insemination) have changed over time.
Results: The results showed persisting, rather than narrowing or increasing, inequalities in the prevalence of infertility and help-seeking overall. The results showed persisting racial/ethnic inequalities in testing, ovulation medication use, and surgery for blocked tubes. By contrast, the results showed widening socioeconomic inequalities in testing and narrowing inequalities in the use of ovulation medications.
Conclusions: There is little evidence to suggest policy interventions, biomedical advances, or increased public health awareness has narrowed inequalities in infertility prevalence, treatment seeking, or use of specific treatments.
(Copyright © 2024 Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, George Washington University. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20240501 Date Completed: 20240802 Latest Revision: 20240802
رمز التحديث: 20240804
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2024.03.005
PMID: 38692970
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:1878-4321
DOI:10.1016/j.whi.2024.03.005