Illegal births and legal abortions - The case of China

Reproductive Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Hemminki, Elina ^a   Wu, Zhuochun ^b   Cao, Guiying ^c   Viisainen, Kirsi ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; INDUCED ABORTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 25444514006     PISSN: 17424755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-2-5     Document Type: Article

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