|
|
| Safe Abortion. Second edition |
|
|
|
|
| Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems |
| Nonserial Publication |
| World Health Organization |
|
|
ISBN-13
9789241548434
|
ISBN-10
9241548436
|
|
|
Order Number
11502506
|
|
|
Price
CHF
30.00
/
US$
36.00
|
Developing countries:
CHF
21.00
|
|
|
English
2012
131
pages
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Summary |
In view of the need for evidence-based best practices
for providing safe abortion care in order to
protect the health and human rights of women, the
World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its
2003 publication Safe abortion: technical and policy
guidance for health systems.
In this process, the WHO standards for guideline development have been
followed, including: identification of priority questions
and outcomes; retrieval, assessment and synthesis of
evidence; formulation of recommendations; and planning
for dissemination, implementation, impact evaluation
and updating. For the clinical recommendations
presented in Chapter 2, evidence profiles related
to the prioritized questions were prepared, based
upon recent systematic reviews, most of which are
included in the Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews. In addition, Chapters 1, 3 and 4 of the original
2003 publication were reviewed and updated to
reflect the latest estimates on unsafe abortion worldwide,
new literature on the topic of service delivery,
and new developments in international, regional and
national human rights law. A guideline development
group, comprising members of an international panel
of experts, reviewed and revised the draft recommendations
based on the evidence profiles, through
a participatory, consensus-driven process.
The target audience for this guidance is policy-makers,
programme managers and providers of abortion
care. In general, the use of the recommendations
should be individualized to each woman, with
emphasis on her clinical status and the specific
method of abortion to be used, while considering
each woman s preferences for care. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
