| Summary: | 碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 健康產業管理學系健康管理組 === 102 === Background: The Philippines is in critical danger of not achieving the target on improving maternal health by 2015. Maternal mortality rate (MMR) had been declining over the past two decades, from 209 per 100,000 live births in 1993 to 172 in 1998 to 162 in 2006, the rate of change has been relatively low. Out of three million pregnancies that occur each year, half were unplanned, of which, one-third end in abortions. Induced abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths in the Philippines
Objective: This study aims to examine the determinants of contraceptive use and induced abortion among women ages 15-49 in the Philippines.
Methodology: This study is a quantitative research, with cross-sectional design using secondary data from Philippine Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) 2008. We used cross tabulation analysis to describe the distribution between the dependent and independent variables, Chi- Square and Binary logistic regression were used to determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables.
Results: Women who stated that they ever had abortion were highest among ages 40-49 y.o. By age, women who stated that they ever had abortion were highest among ages 40-49 yrs. Old. In most cases, women decide to seek abortions because they are faced with unintended pregnancies. Usual reasons are they or their families are too poor to provide for a child or for another child.
Conclusion: O ur results shows that a higher proportion of women having induced abortion have low income, uneducated , cannot read and lives in the rural area. Indicating that Filipino women would rather turn to cheaper ways of terminating pregnancy like traditional midwives and folk methods because safe surgical abortions can cost as much as 15,000 pesos and it is illegal in the Philippines, which could increase cases of post-abortion complications and maternal deaths.
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