This chapter estimates the burden of disease attributable to non-use of contraception and use of ineffective methods. The health outcomes include obstetric complications and abortion-related morbidity and mortality associated with unintended pregnancies (unwanted and mistimed). We have presented a model for linking data on contraceptive use and fertility preferences to unwanted births and unsaf...

OBJECTIVE To analyze temporal trends and distribution patterns of unsafe abortion in Brazil. METHODS Ecological study based on records of hospital admissions of women due to abortion in Brazil between 1996 and 2012, obtained from the Hospital Information System of the Ministry of Health. We estimated the number of unsafe abortions stratified by place of residence, using indirect estimate techni...

OBJECTIVE This review aims to provide the latest global and regional estimates of the incidence and trends in induced abortion, both safe and unsafe. A related objective is to document maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion. The legal context of abortion and the international discourse on preventing unsafe abortion are reviewed to highlight policy implications and challenges in preventing un...

Similar with the CLF method, Wieland and Allgöwer in [8] have proposed the construction of Control Barrier Functions (CBF), where the Lyapunov function is interchanged with the Barrier certificate studied in [3]. Using a CBF as in [8], one can design a universal feedback law for steering the states from the set of initial conditions to the set of terminal conditions, without violating the set o...

Under these conditions the authority will soon justify the installation of a traffic signal, which many perceive as the answer to all traffic congestion problems. A traffic signal that is properly justified, designed, installed, operated and maintained can have many positive and real benefits. On the other hand, however, a poorly motivated and designed traffic signal can be particularly ineffic...

OBJECTIVES To examine environmental feature utilization (EFU) and the types and prevalence of performance difficulties during a videotaped bath transfer and to determine the personal characteristics associated with total EFU and performance difficulties. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Two congregate housing facilities in southeastern Michigan. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-nine older adul...