Health Psychology and the framing of abortion in Africa: a critical review of the literature

Macleod, Catriona I; Chiweshe, Malvern T; Mavuso, Jabulile

Title: Health Psychology and the framing of abortion in Africa: a critical review of the literature
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I, Chiweshe, Malvern T, Mavuso, Jabulile
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143871
Identifier: vital:38290
Identifier: https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: Despite 97% of abortions performed in Africa being classifiable as unsafe, there has been virtually no engagement in knowledge production about abortion in Africa from psychologists, outside of South Africa. Taking a feminist health psychology approach, we conducted a systematic review of published research on this topic featured in PsycINFO over a six year period. We analysed the 39 articles included in the review in terms of countries in which the research was conducted, types of research, issues covered, framings, and main findings. The results show that apart from a public health framing, perspectives that foreground contextual, social, cultural, gendered perspectives dominate. While abortion services, unsafe abortion and the incidence of abortion were well researched, so too were attitudes and public discourses on abortion. Clinical psychological, reproductive justice or rights and medical framings received little attention. We outline the implications of this knowledge base for feminist health psychology in Africa.
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Language: English
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), Macleod, C., Chiweshe, M. and Mavuso, J., 2015. Health Psychology and the framing of abortion in Africa: A critical review of the literature. International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). 9th Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) volume 2015 number 0 2015
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Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)

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