BACKGROUND Maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria is among the highest in the world with an estimated 160 women dying every day of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In addition to appropriate management of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, preventing unwanted pregnancies is an effective way to reduce maternal deaths. Identifying potentially modifiable factors asso...

Induced abortion should be freely available as part of the strategy to prevent unwanted pregnancy and particularly to reduce teenage maternities. The service is an important public health measure and should be easily accessible to all women, especially those who live in socially deprived communities. In the short-term abortion rates may rise and this should be seen as a positive outcome of the ...

results overall, the prevalence of unwanted pregnancies was 32.3%. the performance of the models based on the area under the roc curve as the indicator was as follows: artificial neural networks (0.741), decision tree (0.731), and logistic regression (0.712). the highest sensitivity level belonged to the decision tree (73.5%), and the highest specificity level belonged to the artificial neural ...

CONTEXT Abortion is legally restricted in Malawi, and no data are available on the incidence of the procedure. METHODS The Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology was used to estimate levels of induced abortion in Malawi in 2009. Data on provision of postabortion care were collected from 166 public, nongovernmental and private health facilities, and estimates of the likelihood that women...

Unwanted Pregnancy (UP) is a condition in which partner or the opposite sex does not want pregnancy birth between partners. The incidence of Indonesia still high (17.5%). has an impact on health mother, infant, and family problems. study aimed to determine relationship access information about planning Indonesia. This type research quantitative with cross-sectional design using Program Performa...

The increasing trend of international marriage is an important phenomenon of this era of globalization and open economies. The proportion of international marriages in SouthKorea has increased significantly, from3.5% in 2000 to 7.0% in 2016[1]. The largest proportion of marriage immigrant women (MIW) in South Korea is from Vietnam [1]; the percentage of these immigrants increased from 25.1% in ...