Male perceptions on female sterilization: A community-based study in rural central India

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 131-138

  Char, Arundhati ^a   Saavala, Minna ^b   Kulmala, Teija ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Vaestoliitto   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MALE BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SERVICE PROVISION;

INDIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE;

EID: 73949129450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01903187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3513109     Document Type: Article

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