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Medical Supervision for Contraception: Too Little or Too Much?
Author(s) -
Rosenfield Allan
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1977.tb00657.x
Subject(s) - medicine , family planning , developing country , developed country , context (archaeology) , vasectomy , health care , abortion , public health , family medicine , medical abortion , reproductive health , population , pregnancy , nursing , economic growth , misoprostol , environmental health , paleontology , genetics , economics , research methodology , biology
The need to provide medical supervision in contraceptive services is reviewed in the context of the situation existing in developing nations. The author contends that less rather than more medical supervision can be justified if one compares the relatively low incidence of complications from modern contraception with the inordinately high maternal death rates from pregnancy and its complications in these same countries.