Poverty and abortion complications in Peru

Merino-Garcia, N.; Taype-Rondan, A.; Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae

dc.contributor.author	Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae
dc.contributor.author	Merino-Garcia, N.
dc.contributor.author	Taype-Rondan, A.
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-25T17:02:40Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-25T17:02:40Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4976
dc.description.abstract	Each year, approximately 20 million unsafe abortions – those performed by people lacking necessary skills or in environments lacking minimal medical standards, or both – take place worldwide, producing a variety of complications such as incomplete abortion, haemorrhage, sepsis, peritonitis, cervical, vaginal or uterine trauma, psychological problems, chronic infection, infertility, and death. Moreover, in countries where abortion is penalised, the incidence of unsafe abortions is 23 per 1000 women of childbearing age (WCA), considerably higher than the 2 per 1000 WCA observed in countries where abortion is not penalised...	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	BMJ Publishing Group
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Biomedical Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Obstetrics & Gynecology	en_US
dc.subject	Family Studies	en_US
dc.title	Poverty and abortion complications in Peru	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101606
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.02
dc.relation.issn	2045-2098