Unwanted pregnancy and abortion: Bogotá, Colombia

Unwanted pregnancy, mental health and abortion: untangling the evidence

Abortion policy is still contentious in many parts of the world, and periodically it emerges to dominate health policy debates. This paper examines one such debate in Australia centering on research findings by a New Zealand research group, Fergusson, Horwood & Ridder, published in early 2006. The debate highlighted the difficulty for researchers when their work is released in a heightened poli...

Abortion, unwanted childbearing, and mental health

Risk factors for adolescent pregnancy in Bogotá, Colombia, 2010: a case-control study.

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for adolescent pregnancy among female students in Bogotá, Colombia. METHODS This was a retrospective study of cases and controls matched by age, identified by means of a survey on the sexual behavior of adolescent students in Bogotá (Encuesta sobre el Comportamiento Sexual de los Adolescentes Escolarizados en Bogotá) conducted in the first semester of 2010. ...

Emergency department characteristics and capabilities in Bogotá, Colombia

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) are a critical, yet heterogeneous, part of international emergency care. The National ED Inventories (NEDI) survey has been used in multiple countries as a standardized method to benchmark ED characteristics. We sought to describe the characteristics, resources, capabilities, and capacity of EDs in the densely populated capital city of Bogotá, Colombia. ...

"The Fetus Is My Patient, Too": Attitudes Toward Abortion and Referral Among Physician Conscientious Objectors in Bogotá, Colombia.

CONTEXT In 2006, the Colombian Constitutional Court partially decriminalized abortion. However, barriers to access, including improper use of conscientious objection, remain. METHODS To explore conscientious objection from the objectors' perspectives, in-depth interviews were conducted in 2014 with 13 key informants and with 15 Colombian physicians who self-identified as conscientious objecto...