Infertility around the globe: New thinking on gender, reproductive technologies and global movements in the 21st century

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 411-426

  Inhorn, Marcia C ^a   Patrizio, Pasquale ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive techniques; Demography; Gender; Infertility; Low cost IVF

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CROSS BORDER REPRODUCTIVE CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW COST IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84938531342     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmv016     Document Type: Article

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