Practice of in-vitro fertilization: A case study from Finland

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 975-983

  Silverio, Maili Malin ^a,b   Hemminki, Elina ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Implemenation process of IVF; Organization of care; Physicians' attitudes; Women patients' characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINLAND; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERTILITY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030005692     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00203-0     Document Type: Article

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