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Reproductive characteristics and post-abortion health consequences in women undergoing illegal and legal abortion in Maputo
- Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- In the Maputo Central Hospital 103 women undergoing induced legal abortion (LA), 103 women with confirmed, recent illegal abortion (IA), and 100 randomly recruited antenatal clinic (AC) attenders were compared in order to find characteristic features regarding obstetric history, reproductive performance and contraceptive knowledge, attitude and practice. Women with IA were younger, had almost never undergone LA, had more often their first sexual intercourse and their first pregnancy below 20 years of age, had less knowledge of contraceptives and more often had never used contraceptives, had fewer previous spontaneous abortions and fewer previous stillbirths than LA women. There were three maternal deaths, all in the IA group. The most frequent illegal abortionist was a health worker (38%). It is concluded that, in this first comparative African study on IA and LA regarding reproductive profile and post-abortion health consequences, the former are at a disadvantage regarding early unprotected sexual intercourse with first pregnancy at a young age and with almost no experience of safe, legal abortion.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Health (social science)
Unprotected Sexual Intercourse
Sexual Behavior
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Developing country
Fertility
Abortion
History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy
Humans
Medicine
Illegal abortion
legal abortion
Mozambique
education
media_common
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Obstetrics
Public health
Abortion, Criminal
Sexual intercourse
Socioeconomic Factors
Family planning
Abortion, Legal
Female
Health Services Research
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7e73294e2ca57674cbd0789ddffeb054