Social Science and Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 117-124

Continuity and change in reproductive and abortion patterns of Soviet immigrants in Israel (Article)

Sabatello E.F.*
  • a Division of Population, Demography, Health and Immigrants Absorption, Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Jerusalem, Israel and The Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstract

The abortion and fertility patterns of old-timer and new immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel are compared with those prevalent among the receiving population, where a different system of services, free-choice contraceptive means and outlooks on family size exist. High frequency of abortion in the U.S.S.R. looks adaptive to local circumstances rather than cultural, yet higher-than-average patterns of induced abortion and lower-than-average number of children persist after almost two decades. In the short range, new immigrants seem also to be exposed to very low fertility rates and to significant high rates of legal and illegal abortion than countrywide. © 1994.

Author Keywords

induced abortions (legal and illegal) Israel new- and old-timer immigrants total fertility rates Soviet Union (former)

Index Keywords

Reproduction induced abortion Abortion, Induced immigrant Israel Soviet immigrants human comparative study fertility pattern abortion trend USSR illegal abortion fertility family size Adolescent Sex Behavior female Jews pregnancy contraceptive agent Article adult Age Factors Transients and Migrants health care availability attitude to health
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0028971438&doi=10.1016%2f0277-9536%2894%29E0054-V&partnerID=40&md5=5ff13340427fa9977c1d0dc9f1dce299
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(94)E0054-V
ISSN: 02779536
Cited by: 14
Original Language: English