Publications by authors named "Cheri Poss"
The availability of a variety of modern contraceptive methods is necessary but insufficient to provide a high-quality contraceptive service to postabortion clients. Women, especially young women, must be empowered to make informed choices about which methods they receive, including whether to use contraception following an abortion service. In this study, we conducted 2,488 client exit interviews with abortion clients after their induced abortion service or postabortion care visit in Ipas-supported health facilities in eight countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Approximately one quarter of all pregnancies globally end in abortion, making it one of the most common gynecological practices worldwide. Despite the high incidence of abortion around the globe, the synthesis of known economic outcomes of abortion care and policies is lacking. Using data from a systematic scoping review, we synthesized the literature on the economics of abortion at the microeconomic, mesoeconomic, and mesoeconomic levels and presented the results in a collection of studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The economic consequences of abortion care and abortion policies for individuals occur directly and indirectly. We lack synthesis of the economic costs, impacts, benefit or value of abortion care at the micro-level (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although abortion is a common gynecological procedure around the globe, we lack synthesis of the known macroeconomic costs and outcomes of abortion care and abortion policies. This scoping review synthesizes the literature on the impact of abortion-related care and abortion policies on economic outcomes at the macroeconomic level (that is, for societies and nation states).
Methods And Findings: Searches were conducted in eight electronic databases.
Background: Although abortions are a common aspect of people's reproductive lives, the economic implications of abortion and the stigmas that surround abortion are poorly understood. This article provides an analysis of secondary data from a scoping review on the economic impact of abortion to understand the intersections between stigma and economics outcomes at the microeconomic (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- The scoping review explores the economic impacts of abortion care and policies at the mesoeconomic level, focusing on health systems and communities.
- It analyzed 150 studies, revealing that costs to health systems are the most commonly reported outcome, followed by impacts, benefits, and values of abortion services.
- The findings indicate significant variations in the costs of abortion services and highlight the need for more research on the economic effects of abortion in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in regions like the Middle East and North Africa.