The Expansion of Health Houses and Fertility Outcomes in Rural Iran

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 137-146

  Modrek, Sepideh ^a   Ghobadi, Negar ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL AREA; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; CONTRACEPTION; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IRAN; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

IRAN;

EID: 80053121743     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2011.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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