Screen LibraryFertility Control in a Risk Society : Analysing Contraception Choice of Urban Elites in India /
This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban elites in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women. Although researchers and policy makers generally e...
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Springer India : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New Delhi : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerBriefs in Population Studies,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3685-6 |
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This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban elites in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women. Although researchers and policy makers generally equate reliance on behavioural contraceptive methods with low levels of education and awareness and lack of desire to control fertility, this perception has been questioned in recent years. The authors analysis of the first three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data in India reve |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XX,132pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9788132236856 |
| Index Number: | HB848 |
| CLC: | C924.351 |
| Contents: | 1. Behavioural contraception methods: An introduction.-2. Methodological issues -- 3.Ultra-modernism, or son preference? Analysis of NFHS data -- 4. Current contraception use: A survey of currently married graduates in Kolkata -- 5. Method, or methods? What happens over the life span -- 6. Contraception in a risk society: A new approach to studying reproductive behaviour -- 7. Behavioural Contraception Methods and Urban Graduates: Summing Up the Evidence. |