Socioeconomic Status and it´s Influence on the Course of Gravidity

Abstract

Socioeconomic status and its influence on the process of pregnancy. The dissertation deals with the problems of the influence of the socioeconomic status on the development of pregnancy pathologies. The dissertation is divided into practical and theoretical parts. The aim of the theoretical part is to inform about problems of pregnancy from the medical standpoint and from the social point of view. There is also a treatise about socioeconomic status and its attributes, about fertility and about natality. In the dissertation there is also a chapter that with the problems of family. Research in the practical part was concentraced on the analysis of socioeconomic status and the pregnancy complications of women that gave birth to a child in Havlíčkův Brod Hospitál in a certain period of time. Complex of women was divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of pregnancy and obstetrical complications. Both groups were compared. As the instrument for the data acquisition and questionnaire, the quantitative research strategy was used. The aim of the dissertation was to find some factors refering to the socioeconomic status that might influence pregnancy complications. As the attributes of socioeconomic status that influence pregnancy complications following factors were marked: the highest finished education of woman and profession of woman before maternity leave