Effects of rural-urban return migration on women's family planning and reproductive health attitudes and behavior in rural China

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-44

  Chen, Jiajian ^a   Liu, Hongyan ^b   Xie, Zhenming ^b  

^a EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^b China Population and Development Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RETURN MIGRATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANHUI; CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 77951173209     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2010.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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