- Title
- Adolescent abortion in 11 high-income countries including Australia: towards the establishment of a minimum data set
- Creator
- Assifi, Anisa R.; Sullivan, Elizabeth A.; Kang, Melissa; Dawson, Angela J.
- Relation
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Vol. 43, Issue 6, p. 577-581
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12947
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Objective: A major public health challenge in Australia is the lack of national adolescent abortion data. This descriptive study identifies, collates and describes publicly available adolescent abortion data in high-income countries including Australia, to describe trends over 10 years and provide recommendations for strengthening data collection. Methods: Data were extracted from publicly available government sources that met inclusion criteria. All relevant adolescent abortion data from 2007 to 2017 were extracted from datasets and analysed. Results: Eleven high-income countries were included. Incidence data for the adolescent population were available for all countries and states. Incidence of adolescent abortion over 10 years shows a downward trend in all countries. Gestational age at time of abortion was the second-most available variable. The level and type of data across all countries varied; there was a lack of age range standardisation and aggregation of gestational weeks differed, making comparisons difficult. Conclusion: A minimum data set of standardised abortion information will enable appropriate adolescent abortion policies and services to be developed that are informed by high quality, up-to-date intelligence. Implications for public health: Availability of data affects government's ability to adequately monitor national adolescent health outcomes and plan and evaluate appropriate reproductive health policy and services.
- Subject
- induced abortion; adolescent; public health; surveillance
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1413342
- Identifier
- uon:36615
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-0200
- Rights
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Language
- eng
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