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Insights from an expert group meeting on the definition and measurement of unsafe abortion

Until recently, WHO operationally defined unsafe abortion as illegal abortion. In the past decade, however, the incidence of abortion by misoprostol administration has increased in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Access to safe surgical abortions has also increased in many such countries....

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Autores principales: Sedgh, Gilda, Filippi, Veronique, Owolabi, Onikepe O., Singh, Susheela D., Askew, Ian, Bankole, Akinrinola, Benson, Janie, Rossier, Clementine, Pembe, Andrea B., Adewole, Isaac, Ganatra, Bela, MacDonagh, Sandra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.11.017
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author Sedgh, Gilda
Filippi, Veronique
Owolabi, Onikepe O.
Singh, Susheela D.
Askew, Ian
Bankole, Akinrinola
Benson, Janie
Rossier, Clementine
Pembe, Andrea B.
Adewole, Isaac
Ganatra, Bela
MacDonagh, Sandra
author_facet Sedgh, Gilda
Filippi, Veronique
Owolabi, Onikepe O.
Singh, Susheela D.
Askew, Ian
Bankole, Akinrinola
Benson, Janie
Rossier, Clementine
Pembe, Andrea B.
Adewole, Isaac
Ganatra, Bela
MacDonagh, Sandra
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description Until recently, WHO operationally defined unsafe abortion as illegal abortion. In the past decade, however, the incidence of abortion by misoprostol administration has increased in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Access to safe surgical abortions has also increased in many such countries. An important effect of these trends has been that, even in an illegal environment, abortion is becoming safer, and an updated system for classifying abortion in accordance with safety is needed. Numerous factors aside from abortion method or legality should be taken into consideration in developing such a classification system. An Expert Meeting on the Definition and Measurement of Unsafe Abortion was convened in London, UK, on January 9–10, 2014, to move toward developing a classification system that both reflects current conditions and acknowledges the gradient of risk associated with abortion. The experts also discussed the types of research needed to monitor the incidence of abortion at each level of safety. These efforts are urgently needed if we are to ensure that preventing unsafe abortion is appropriately represented on the global public health agenda. Such a classification system would also motivate investment in research to accurately measure and monitor abortion incidence across categories of safety.
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spelling pubmed-64349012019-04-05 Insights from an expert group meeting on the definition and measurement of unsafe abortion Sedgh, Gilda Filippi, Veronique Owolabi, Onikepe O. Singh, Susheela D. Askew, Ian Bankole, Akinrinola Benson, Janie Rossier, Clementine Pembe, Andrea B. Adewole, Isaac Ganatra, Bela MacDonagh, Sandra Int J Gynaecol Obstet Article Until recently, WHO operationally defined unsafe abortion as illegal abortion. In the past decade, however, the incidence of abortion by misoprostol administration has increased in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Access to safe surgical abortions has also increased in many such countries. An important effect of these trends has been that, even in an illegal environment, abortion is becoming safer, and an updated system for classifying abortion in accordance with safety is needed. Numerous factors aside from abortion method or legality should be taken into consideration in developing such a classification system. An Expert Meeting on the Definition and Measurement of Unsafe Abortion was convened in London, UK, on January 9–10, 2014, to move toward developing a classification system that both reflects current conditions and acknowledges the gradient of risk associated with abortion. The experts also discussed the types of research needed to monitor the incidence of abortion at each level of safety. These efforts are urgently needed if we are to ensure that preventing unsafe abortion is appropriately represented on the global public health agenda. Such a classification system would also motivate investment in research to accurately measure and monitor abortion incidence across categories of safety. Wiley 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6434901/ /pubmed/27062249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.11.017 Text en © 2016 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. on behalf of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Rossier, Clementine
Pembe, Andrea B.
Adewole, Isaac
Ganatra, Bela
MacDonagh, Sandra
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.11.017
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