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Unsafe abortion and abortion-related death among 1.8 million women in India
BMJ Global Health, 2019 Introduction Unsafe abortion is a preventable cause of maternal mortality. While studies report high number of abortions in India, the population-level rates of unsafe abortion and their risk factors are not well understood.
Saswati Sanyal Choudhury +4 more
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Unsafe abortion: the silent scourge [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2003 An estimated 19 million unsafe abortions occur worldwide each year, resulting in the deaths of about 70,000 women. Legalization of abortion is a necessary but insufficient step toward improving women's health. Without skilled providers, adequate facilities and easy access, the promise of safe, legal abortion will remain unfulfilled, as in India and ...
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundUnsafe abortion contributes to maternal morbidities, mortalities as well as social and financial costs to women, families, and the health system.
Resham Bahadur Khatri +2 more
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Abortion and well-being: A narrative literature review
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health“Well-being” is utilised in multiple ways – an everyday word, a component of health, a policy objective, reflecting a diverse set of shifting meanings, conceptualisations, definitions, measurements, and theorising.
Ernestina Coast +10 more
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Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Although Nepal legalised abortion in 2002, a significant number of women continue to access unsafe abortions. An estimated 60% of all abortions performed in 2014 were unsafe, with unsafe abortion continuing to be a leading contributor to ...
Claire Rogers +3 more
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Understanding the barriers to and opportunities for improving access to safe, legal abortion services in Ghana: a policy analysis [PDF]
Unsafe abortion continues to be a major public health problem in Ghana. It accounts for 22-30% of the maternal mortality in the country. Although Ghana is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a liberal abortion law, access to safe, legal ...
Aniteye, Patience
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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Unsafe abortions in Sri Lanka –facts and risk profile
Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2012 Introduction Unsafe abortions frequently endanger the lives of Asian women. Research on diverse aspects of this important public health problem is considered an urgent need.
N Thalagala
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Preventing induced abortion among urban poor in Fortaleza, Brazil : is post-abortion counselling effective?. [PDF]
This thesis reports the results of a randomised controlled intervention study carried out between May and November 1993 in a major public hospital in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza City, Ceará, Brazil. The objective was to investigate the impact of
Misago, Chizuru
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The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
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