Operations Research on Promoting Vasectomy in Three Latin American Countries

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-31

  Vernon, Ricardo ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (Mexico)

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EID: 0002688022     PISSN: 01622749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2950799     Document Type: Article

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17. Ibid.
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25. L. Liskin, E. Benoit and R. Blackburn, 1992, op. cit. (see reference 1).
26. A. Estrada, senior medical advisor for the Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception, personal communication, June 1994.