Effect of provider characteristics on choice of contraceptive provider: A two-equation full-information maximum-likelihood estimation

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 513-523

  Akin, John S ^a   Rous, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031264343     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3038306     Document Type: Article

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