Review
Health Worker Roles in Providing Safe Abortion Care and Post-Abortion Contraception
Geneva: World Health Organization; 2015.
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Review
Health Worker Roles in Providing Safe Abortion Care and Post-Abortion Contraception
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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.
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Sections
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Tasks and health workers considered in the guideline
- Background
- How the guideline was developed
- Recommendations
- Research needs and implementation considerations
- Guideline dissemination, adaptation, monitoring and review
- References
- Annex A Contributors to the guideline
- Web Supplement 1 Evidence to Decision (EtD) Frameworks
- Web Supplement 2 Annexes 1–26: Evidence base for benefits and harms
- Web Supplement 3 Annexes 27–40: Evidence base for acceptability and feasibility
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