Sometimes they used to whisper in our ears: Health care workers perceptions of the effects of abortion legalization in Nepal

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Puri, Mahesh ^a   Lamichhane, Prabhat ^a   Harken, Tabetha ^b   Blum, Maya ^c   Harper, Cynthia C ^c   Darney, Philip D ^c   Henderson, Jillian T ^c  

^a Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities   (Nepal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ABORTION; MALE; NEPAL; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ABORTION, LEGAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; NEPAL; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84862227633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-297     Document Type: Article

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