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  • Aditi Iyer, Amar Jesani
    Population Council
    1999

    The notion of quality in the public health system is becoming increasingly an issue for policymakers and planners in India. The Eighth Five-Year Plan identified the poor quality of family welfare services as one of the factors

  • U.S. Mishra, T.K. Roy, S. Irudaya Rajan
    The Journal of Family Welfare
    1998

    Contraception as a behavioral phenomenon has been the focus of many population researches, during the last half a century. In fact, explaining contraceptive behavior is a complex theoretical effort. Learning, motivation,

  • Nidhi, Phanindra Babu, Ravi K. Verma
    The Journal of Family Welfare
    1998

    Abortion is possibly the most divisive women's health issue that policy makers and planners face particularly in developing countries where safe abortion facilities are not available to most women. The health risk of abortion multiplies manifold if a woman has to resort to it repeatedly.

  • Mohan Rao
    Health for the Millions
    1998

    On the 16th of March 1998, at the final hearing of the writ petition filed by the All India Democratic Women's Association and the faculty of the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the Drug Controller of India gave a written commitment to

  • G. Rama Rao, S. Niranjan, S. Sureender
    Demography India
    1998

    With the increase in the urbanization and industrialization, the concept of family in India, which once was to create and maintain a common culture among the members of the family, is undergoing changes.