Zika & reproductive rights in Brazil: Challenge to the right to health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1376-1380

  Valente, Pablo K ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ABORTION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; VIROLOGY; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

ABORTION, LEGAL; BRAZIL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85027852560     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303924     Document Type: Review

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