Social and cultural factors in infertility and childlessness

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-225

  Bos, Henny ^a   Van Balen, Frank ^a   Visser, Adriaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INDIA; INFERTILITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 28444466882     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2005.08.013     Document Type: Editorial

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