"Fewer children, better life" or "as many as God wants"?: Family planning among low-income Iranian and Afghan refugee families in Isfahan, Iran

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-71

  Tober, Diane M ^a,b   Taghdisi, Mohammad Hossein ^c   Jalali, Mohammad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Family planning; Iran; Maternal and child health; Medical anthropology; Refugees; Shi'a Islam

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REFUGEES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644765054     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2006.20.1.50     Document Type: Article

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