Pregnancy prevention, reproductive health risk and morality: A perspective from public-sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia

Critical Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-371

  Larivaara, Meri M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth control; Contraception; Family planning; Gynaecologist; Health education; Health promotion; Qualitative research; Reproductive health; Risk; Russia; Sociology of health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTRACEPTION; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77956054888     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590903436895     Document Type: Article

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