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A Platform for Change: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Healthcare Personnel Releated to Safe Abortion

Armish Hussain*, Kausar Karim **

* Cardiology Department, North West Clinic, United Arab Emirates.

** Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.

Periodicity:November - January'2020
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.9.4.16687

Abstract

Despite advances in healthcare, there are 22 million unsafe abortions reported each year across the globe. With the changing and expanding healthcare systems, health professionals are considered as an integral part of enhancing patient's well-being. Healthcare providers with sound theoretical and clinical based knowledge, positive attitudes, and safe practices regarding abortion can provide evidence based expert care. This results in an overall impact on patients' healthcare and decreases the global burden of unsafe abortions and related mortality. In this paper, various studies have shown the positive and negative impacts of knowledge providers and attitudes on women seeking abortion services world wide. Such researches can be done to explore attitudes and provide a base and opportunity for professionals to update their existing knowledge, skills and practices. It could be helpful to design appropriate interventions to improve maternal and child health in the country.

Keywords

Abortion, Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Providers, Health Outcomes.

How to Cite this Article?

Hussain, A., and Karim, K. (2020). A Platform for Change: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Healthcare Personnel Releated to Safe Abortion. i-manager's Journal on Nursing, 9(4), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.9.4.16687

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A Platform for Change: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Healthcare Personnel Releated to Safe Abortion

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