Abortion metrics: a scoping review of abortion measures and indicators.

ABSTRACT: Consensus is lacking on the most appropriate indicators to document progress in safe abortion at programmatic and country level. We conducted a scoping review to provide an extensive summary of abortion indicators used over 10 years (2008-2018) to inform the debate on how progress in the provision and access to abortion care can be best captured. Documents were identified in PubMed and Popline and supplemented by materials identified on major non-governmental organisation websites. We screened 1999 abstracts and seven additional relevant documents. Ultimately, we extracted information on 792 indicators from 142 documents. Using a conceptual framework developed inductively, we grouped indicators into seven domains (social and policy context, abortion access and availability, abortion preval

SUBMITTER: Filippi V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7849886 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature