Meeting Health Care Needs of Women Experiencing Complications of Miscarriage and Unsafe Abortion: USAID's Postabortion Care Program

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 368-375

  Curtis, Carolyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

abortion; family planning services; incomplete; maternal mortality; miscarriage; pregnancy; spontaneous; unplanned

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDUCED ABORTION; MALARIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; AFTERCARE; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATERNAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 34250898640     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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