Skewed Sex Ratios in India: "Physician, Heal Thyself"

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1129-1134

  Patel, Archana B ^a,b   Badhoniya, Neetu ^a   Mamtani, Manju ^a   Kulkarni, Hemant ^a,c  

^a Lata Medical Research Foundation   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; Gender; Prenatal diagnosis; Sex determination; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877619130     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0194-9     Document Type: Article

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