Open AccessMeet women's health needs with postabortion care
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Publication year - 2000
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.31899/rh2000.1035
Subject(s) - unsafe abortion , abortion , psychological intervention , medicine , public health , health care , population , pregnancy , medical emergency , environmental health , economic growth , political science , family planning , nursing , business , family medicine , research methodology , biology , economics , genetics
Worldwide, one in eight pregnancy-related deaths result from complications of unsafe abortion such as bleeding, infection, or internal injuries. Many of these deaths could be prevented if women had the means to avoid unplanned pregnancy. At the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, 180 governments identified postabortion care (PAC) as a high-priority public health issue. As part of the resulting global PAC initiative, the Population Council and other international organizations collaborated with governments and nongovernmental organizations in a worldwide program of operations research on interventions to improve postabortion care. This brief highlights the major findings of this research.