Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 19, Issue 38 , Pages 11-25 , November 2011

The macroeconomic environment and sexual and reproductive health: a review of trends over the last 30 years

  • Sharon Fonn

      Affiliations

    • Professor & Head of School, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
    • ,
  • TK Sundari Ravindran

      Affiliations

    • Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

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