Abortos seguros e inseguros

Costos monetarios totales y costos para el sistema de salud de la Argentina en 2018

Bibliographic Data

ID15530995
AuthorsMalena Monteverde (0000-0002-5694-5375, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, corresponding author), Sonia Tarragona (0000-0003-1087-7693, Fundación Huésped)
Year2019
Volume15
Pagese2275-e2275
Publication date2019-10-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSalud Colectiva (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1669-2381 • E-ISSN: 1851-8265
PublisherInstituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (PUBLISHER • AR)
DOI10.18294/sc.2019.2275
PMID32022132
OpenAlexW2979565635
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

During the first semester of 2018, a profound debate on the legalization of the practice of abortion was initiated in Argentina, which exposed the lack of scientific studies addressing the economic dimension of abortion in this country. This work seeks to move forward in the quantification of the costs of abortion under two scenarios: the current context of illegality and the potential costs if the recommended international protocols were applied in a context of legalization of the practice. The results of the comparison between, on the one hand, the total monetary costs in 2018 (private or out-of-pocket expenditure and costs for the health care system) of the current scenario of illegality and unsafe practice of abortion and, on the other hand, potential scenarios of safe practices, shows that a large amount of resources could be saved if the recommended protocols were implemented. These results proved to be robust after carrying out a series of sensitivity exercises on the main assumptions included in the comparisons

Abortion · Business · Context (archaeology · Economics · Geography · Humanities · Legalization · Political science · Welfare economics · Law · Male Reproductive Health Studies · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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