Buying safety: The economics of reproductive risk and abortion in Egypt

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1089-1099

  Lane, Sandra D ^a   Jok, Jok Madut ^b   El Mouelhy, Mawaheb T ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abortion; Egypt; Policy; Political economics; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; RELIGION; SAFETY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, LEGAL; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; PREGNANCY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK; SAFETY;

EGYPT;

EID: 0031810835     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00129-4     Document Type: Article

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