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Timing of abortion among adolescent and young women presenting for post-abortion care in Kenya: a cross-sectional analysis of nationally-representative data

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Complications of unsafe abortion are a leading cause of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Adolescents and young women are disproportionately represented among those at risk of these complications.
Boniface A. Ushie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Care for Dependents and Survivors of Veterans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
[Excerpt] The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) was established by the Veterans Health Care Expansion Act of 1973 (P.L. 93 82).
Panangala, Sidath Viranga
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Obstetric near miss and deaths in public and private hospitals in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background Falling numbers of maternal deaths have stimulated an interest in investigating cases of life threatening obstetric morbidity or near miss. The purpose of this study was to document the frequency and causes of near miss and maternal deaths in ...
Asri Adisasmita   +19 more
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Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis of the tricuspid valve after septic abortion: Case report and literature review

open access: yesRevista de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, 2011
We report a case of a female patient, 22 years old, with a diagnosis of tricuspid valve endocarditis by S. aureus following septic abortion. The diagnosis was established by the Duke University criteria and it was confirmed by the echocardiographic ...
Nelson López-Garzón   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Detection of Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in Blood Samples of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss in Women by Polymerase Chain Reaction.

open access: yesمجلة كلية الطب, 2013
Background: Genital mycoplasma are implicated in pelvic inflammatory disease, puerperal infection, septic abortion, low birth weight, nongonococcal urethritis and prostatitis as well as spontaneous abortion and infertility in women.
Ishraq A. Chiad
doaj   +1 more source

Free does not mean affordable: maternity patient expenditures in a public hospital in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Objective This study investigated a) the amount and types of out-of-pocket expenditures by patients for nominally free services in a large public hospital in Bangladesh, b) the factors influencing these expenses, and c) the impact of these expenses on ...
Khan Suhaila H
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You and Your Neighbor [PDF]

open access: yes, 1949
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Archibald, Roy   +7 more
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Late Presentation of Unsafe Abortion after 5 Years of Procedure

open access: yesCase Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2014
A majority of the unsafe abortions are performed by untrained birth attendants or quacks leading to complications in a large proportion of these cases. Complications like bowel injury, bladder injury, uterine perforation, and septic abortion are mostly ...
Prasanta Kumar Nayak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Campylobacter fetus Peritonitis in a Patient with Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis: A First Case Report in Korea

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical Microbiology, 2018
Campylobacter fetus may cause infections such as septicemia, peritonitis, meningitis, endocarditis, septic arthritis, and cellulitis, increasing the risk of spontaneous abortion but decreasing the likelihood of gastroenteritis. We identified C.
Kyuhwa Hur   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Health Versus Court-Sponsored Secrecy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Public health practice relies on access to information. Givelber and Robbins discuss the debate about court-sponsored secrecy: Whether or not courts should tolerate, edorse, or protect secrecy when the sequestered information might help protect the ...
Givelber, Daniel J., Robbins, Anthony
core   +1 more source

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