Contraception, abortions, demography in Russia

Rates of depopulation in Russia 5 times exceed those of the European countries, maternal death-rate is 2–5 times higher than in economically developed countries of the world, the tendency of decrease in reproductive potential of the population remains. Negative data on the state of reproductive health are caused by great number of various medicosocial factors among which of essential importance are abortion rates, insufficient propagation of contraceptive methods and state of health of girls-teenagers. Almost every tenth young girl in Russia at the age under fourteen and every third one by sixteen has experience…