Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception

Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability...

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Corporate Author: World Health Organization Reproductive Health and Research
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization [2015], 2015
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability of health services for those receiving them. This guideline provides a range of options for expanding of health worker roles in the provision of safe abortion care, the management of complications of abortion (also known as post-abortion care in some settings and provided as part of emergency obstetric care) and for post-abortion contraception provision
Item Description:Title from PDF title page
Physical Description:1 PDF file (v, 81 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9789241549264