Health Professionals' Perceptions about Induced Abortion in South Central and Southeast Asia

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Singh, Susheela ^a   Wulf, Deirdre ^b   Jones, Heidi ^b  

^a GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AGI ^*

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EID: 0002805284     PISSN: 01622749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2950825     Document Type: Article

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48. S. Singh and S. K. Henshaw, 1996, op cit. (see reference 6).
49. Ibid.
50. WHO, 1994, op. cit. (see reference 6), Table 3, p. 8.
51. World Bank, Social Indicators of Development: 1995, Washington, D. C., 1995.
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55. AGI, 1995, op. cit. (see reference 20), p. 25.
56. S. Singh and D. Wulf, 1994, op. cit. (see reference 2).