Confidentiality concerns with mapping survey data in reproductive health research

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-321

  Sherman, Jill E ^a   Fetters, Tamara L ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b IPAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SURVEY;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CAMBODIA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RESEARCH ETHICS; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CAMBODIA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MAPS AS TOPIC;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 36949040165     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2007.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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