This paper reviews two types of determinants of induced abortion: proximate and systemic
determinants. Proximate determinants are those individual-level factors that lead to …

FROM LEGALITY TO SAFETY Through the late 1980s, research on abortions obtained
outside of clinical settings focused primarily on the quantification and reduction of 'illegal …

In the first years of the new century, the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service determined
to reduce abortion‐associated morbidity and mortality by increasing access to safe care …

On November 1-5, 2004, in Bellagio, Italy, the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special
Program of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) …

Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights
imperative. As with other more visible global-health issues, this scourge threatens women …

Abortion care is a fundamental part of women's reproductive health care. Surgical and
medical abortion methods are safe and effective throughout the gestational age range …

THIS is RHM's 10th anniversary year and the third journal issue in which RHM has focused
on abortion since 1993 [1]. Looking back, it is heartening to see how much has changed …

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of
Action represented a positive step toward legitimising abortion as a component of basic …

The promise of medical abortion to both reduce maternal mortality and morbidity from unsafe
abortion and to expand the reproductive rights of women can only be realized if information …

The history of the creation of the risk and harm reduction model applied to unsafe abortion is
reviewed, from its initial implementation by a small group of gynecologists at the Pereira …