Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction and social change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3972262
AutoresJoanna N Erdman (0000-0003-3578-8523, Dalhousie University, autor de correspondencia), Kinga Jelinska (Executive Director, Women Help Women, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Susan Yanow (Consultant, Women Help Women, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Año2018
Volumen26
Número54
Páginas13-19
Fecha de publicación2018-11-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09688080.2018.1511769
PMID30231807
OpenAlexW2890004651
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas22

This commentary explores how self-managed abortion (SMA) has transformed understandings of and discourses on safe abortion and associated health inequities through an intersection of harm reduction, human rights and collective activism. The article examines three primary understandings of the relationship between SMA and safe abortion: first SMA as health inequity, second SMA as harm reduction, and third SMA as social change, including health system innovation and reform. A more dynamic understanding of the relationship between SMA, safe abortion and health inequities can both improve the design of interventions in the field, and more radically reset reform goals for health systems and other state institutions towards the full realisation of sexual and reproductive health and human rights

Abortion · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family planning · Harm · Harm reduction · Health care · Health equity · Human rights · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Public health · Reproductive health · SMA · Sociology · Unsafe abortion · Law · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies