Postabortion care in Latin America: Policy and service recommendations from a decade of operations research

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 158-166

  Billings, Deborah L ^a,b   Benson, Janie ^a,c  

^a IPAS   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Manual vacuum aspiration; Postabortion care; Unsafe abortion

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRACEPTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ABORTION, LEGAL; AFTERCARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 18344367437     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czi020     Document Type: Review

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