“Like a mother-daughter relationship”: Community health intermediaries' knowledge of and attitudes to abortion in Karnataka, India

Rishita Nandagiri

Social Science & Medicine, 2019, vol. 239, issue C

Abstract: Community Health Intermediaries (CHIs)- ANMs, ASHAs, and pharmacists- are key to realising task-sharing efforts to increase abortion access in LMICs, but their knowledge of and attitudes to abortion remains underexplored. Evidence on abortion task-sharing has focused primarily on CHIs' technical and clinical abilities, overlooking social contexts and norms that influence attitudes and behaviours.

Keywords: India; Abortion; Abortion attitudes; Abortion stigma; Community health intermediaries; Task-sharing; Community health workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112525

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