Declining sex ratio: Role of society, technology and government regulation in Faridabad district, Haryana

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 207-211

  Bardia, A ^a   Paul, E ^a   Kapoor, S K ^a   Anand, K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BIRTH ORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOTHER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIAGNOSIS; SEX RATIO;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CENSUSES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX RATIO;

EID: 4444235877     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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