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- Over 50 years ago, the World Health Assembly identified abortion as a significant public health issue, emphasizing the need for action to prevent unsafe abortions.
- Addressing this issue is crucial due to its widespread impact on individuals, society, and the inequality surrounding healthcare access.
- Effective solutions include comprehensive sexuality education, access to contraception, safe and legal abortion services, and quality post-abortion care, alongside a call for health professionals to advocate for better policies and regulations.
Article Abstract
It is now more than 50 years since the World Health Assembly recognized abortion as a serious public health problem. The challenge still stands. Addressing the problem of unsafe abortion is a national and global public health imperative, dictated by the magnitude of the problem and its impact on individuals and society, inequity of the burden of disease, and an international consensus of the global health community. Almost every abortion death and disability could be prevented through cost-effective public health interventions including sexuality education, use of effective contraception, provision of safe, legal induced abortion, and quality humane postabortion care. Safe abortion continues to be a challenge to public health because of diverse national restrictive legal regulations, prevailing stigma, and lack of political commitment. Health professionals have a social responsibility to educate policymakers, legislators, and the public at large about adverse impacts of restrictive abortion regulations, laws, and policies on women's health.
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