Fertility and its relationship with sociocultural factors in Kuwaiti society.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of some sociocultural variables on the fertility of Kuwaiti women. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 7749 married women (aged 15-78 years) selected randomly from 10 primary health care clinics in Kuwait. The fertility rate was 3.58 live b...
| Publicado en: | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal Vol. 13; no. 6; pp. 1364 - 1372 |
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World Health Organization
nov/dec2007
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