The public health and economic consequences of unintended pregnancies in South Africa

• Main Authors: Hoa H. Le (Author), Mark P. Connolly (Author), Jingbo Yu (Author), Yacob Pinchevsky (Author), Petrus S. Steyn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Unintended pregnancy (UIP) poses considerable humanistic and economic burden in both developed and developing countries. In the analysis described here, we evaluate the costs of unintended pregnancies based on estimates in South Africa. To estimate the burden of UIP, a decision-analytic model was de...