Side Effects, Physical Health Consequences, and Mortality Associated with Abortion and Birth after an Unwanted Pregnancy

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-59

  Gerdts, Caitlin ^a   Dobkin, Loren ^b   Foster, Diana Greene ^b   Schwarz, Eleanor Bimla ^c  

^a IBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDUCED ABORTION; LIVE BIRTH; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTERUS BLEEDING; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTION APPLICANTS; ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958609878     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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