Health Worker Roles in Providing Safe Abortion Care and Post-Abortion Contraception

Paperback
January 2016
9789241549264
More details
  • Publisher
    World Health Organization
  • Published
    12th January 2016
  • ISBN 9789241549264
  • Language English
  • Pages 70 pp.
  • Size 7.5" x 7.875"
$24.00

This publication provides guidance and recommendations for the roles of non-physician providers (midwives, nurses, auxiliary nurses, community workers, pharmacists) in the provision of safe abortion and post abortion care.

Over the last several years there have been numerous studies that have looked at the safety, efficacy and feasibility of such cadres of providers and this book ensures that this new evidence is systematically reviewed and evidence based recommendations developed.

Both surgical abortion (MVA and D&E) as well as medical abortion and the role of such health workers in supportive tasks (counselling, referrals, community education, post abortion contraception provision etc.) are covered.

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World Health Organization is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, charged to act as the world's directing and coordinating authority on questions of human health. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries, and monitoring and assessing health trends.