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Systematic Reviews, 2018 Background Unsafe abortion is a neglected public health problem contributing for 13% of maternal death worldwide. In Africa, 99% of abortions are unsafe resulting in one maternal death per 150 cases.
Merhawi Gebremedhin +3 more
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Induced abortion potential among Indian women [PDF]
Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly accounted for in terms of increase in the
S. Irudaya Rajan +2 more
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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
JONATHAN C. HELLER
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BMC Public HealthIntroduction Over 60% of unplanned pregnancies end up in abortion and an estimated 45% of these abortions are unsafe, contributing for 13% of all maternal death globally.
Denis Dickson Omiat +6 more
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Reproductive Health, 2011 Unsafe abortion is a significant contributor to worldwide maternal mortality; however, abortion law and policy liberalization could lead to drops in unsafe abortion and related deaths.
Benson Janie +2 more
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Abortion surveillance annual summary 1978 [PDF]
Over the past 25 years, "surveillance"\u2014including collection, analysis, and dissemination of epidemiologic information\u2014has become applicable not only to infectious disease but also to such diverse public health concerns as air pollution, cancer,
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Unsafe abortion: A cruel way of birth control [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Unsafe abortion refers to a procedure for terminating an unintended pregnancy performed either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both.Objectives: The objectives
Shrivastava, PS +2 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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