Use of modern contraception by the poor is falling behind

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0381-0389

  Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a,b   Vayena, Effy ^c  

^a Harvard Initiative for Global Health   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILIZATION; FUNDING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MALE; MALE STERILIZATION; PREVALENCE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CONTRACEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33847637229     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040031     Document Type: Article

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