Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle)
January 2024
Background: Colombia has a high teen pregnancy (TP) rate. In 2018, one in five pregnancies was from teen mothers between 10 and 19 years of age. While TP rates are declining globally, Colombia's TP rate decline has been particularly low, despite sexual education and contraception campaigns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the association between municipality altitude and quality of life (QOL) of older people in Colombia.
Methods: Cross-sectional study with data from the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey Older Adult Questionnaire 2015 ( = 13,970). QOL was measured in six domains: physical health, psychological health, functional status, social relations, medical history and economic status.