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Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4592728
AutoresChimaraoke Izugbara (0000-0003-4908-1131, African Population and Health Research Center), Chimaraoke O Izugbara, Carolyne Egesa (0000-0001-6622-1613, African Population and Health Research Center), Rispah Okelo, R O Okelo (African Population and Health Research Center)
Ano2015
Volume141
Páginas9-18
Data de publicação2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.019
PMID26233296
OpenAlexW1891857942
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas68

Public health discourses on safe abortion assume the term to be unambiguous. However, qualitative evidence elicited from Kenyan women treated for complications of unsafe abortion contrasted sharply with public health views of abortion safety. For these women, safe abortion implied pregnancy termination procedures and services that concealed their abortions, shielded them from the law, were cheap and identified through dependable social networks. Participants contested the notion that poor quality abortion procedures and providers are inherently dangerous, asserting them as key to women's preservation of a good self, management of stigma, and protection of their reputation, respect, social relationships, and livelihoods. Greater public health attention to the social dimensions of abortion safety is urgent

Abortion · Criminology · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Public health · Qualitative research · Social science · Social stigma · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Unsafe abortion · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception