Targeting Access to Reproductive Health: Giving Contraception More Prominence and Using Indicators to Monitor Progress

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 186-191

  Bernstein, Stan ^a   Edouard, Lindsay ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

^b UNFPA   (United States)

Author keywords

family planning; indicators; Millennium Development Goals; reproductive health services; unmet need

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ILLEGAL ABORTION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

EID: 34248335055     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29284-5     Document Type: Note

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