Only tasks that have already been recommended as safe and effective in Safe abortion: Self-management and self-assessment approaches are included for some of the tasks as women themselves have an important role to play in the management of their own care. Such approaches can be empowering for women and also represent a way of optimizing available health workforce resources and sharing of tasks. | Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception Acknowledgements The guideline was developed by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization. We acknowledge the many staff and consultants to the Department who contributed towards this effort. We thank the staff of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, for their work in evidence synthesis and assessment, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation for supporting the staff’s time to work on this project. We are also deeply grateful to the members of the Guideline Development Group and the external peer reviewers. A complete list of contributors and their specific roles can be found in Annex A: Contributors to the guideline. Editing, design and layout by Green Ink () Cover design by J. Petitpierre WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post abortion contraception. Contents: 3 web supplements: Evidence-to-Decision (EtD) Frameworks 2015 – Annex : Evidence base for benefits and harms – Annexes 27-40: acceptability and feasibility , Induced. . Personnel. . Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 154926 4 (NLM classification: WQ 440) © World Health Organization 2015 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization are available on the WHO website () or can be purchased from WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (tel.: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791 4857; e-mail: bookorders@). Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications –whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution– should be addressed to WHO Press through the WHO website .
