Is global access to infertility care realistic? the Walking Egg Project

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 267-272

  Ombelet, Willem ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; infertility care; IVF; one day diagnostic phase; resource poor countries; sociocultural factors

Indexed keywords

CHILDLESSNESS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY CARE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SAFETY; REGISTRATION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION; INFERTILITY CARE; IVF; ONE-DAY DIAGNOSTIC PHASE; RESOURCE-POOR COUNTRIES; SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS;

ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84895504155     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.11.013     Document Type: Note

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