Dramatic decline in abortion mortality due to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act [1]

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 250-

  Jewkes, Rechel ^a   Rees, Helen ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT RIGHT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGISLATION; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 17844390411     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. South African Parliament. Choice in Termination of Pregnancy Act no of.
2. Department of Health. Saving Mothers. Report on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in South Africa 1998. Pretoria: Department of Health 1999.
3. Department of Health. Saving Mothers Second Report on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in South Africa 1999 - 2001. Pretoria: Department of Health, 2003.
4. Jewkes R, Rees H, Dickson K, Briown H, Levin J. The impact of age on the epidemiology of incomplete abortions in South Africa after legislative change. Br J Obstet Gynnaecol (in press).
5. Rees H, Katznellenbogen J, Shabodien R, et al. The epidemiology of incomplete abortion in South Africa. S Afr Med J 1997, 87: 432-437.