title: Medical supervision for contraception: too little or too much?
abstract: The need to provide medical supervision in contraceptive services is reviewed in the context of the situation existing in developing nations. The author contends that less rather than more medical supervision can be justified if one compares the relatively low incidence of complications from modern contraception with the inordinately high maternal death rates from pregnancy and its complications in these same countries.
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D003267:Contraception; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007434:Intrauterine Devices; D008428:Maternal Mortality
chemical_list: D003276:Contraceptives, Oral