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Chapter 6. Narrowing the gap.(medical economics and access to reproductive health services)(Statistical Data Included)

Hopes and Realities: Closing the Gap Between Women's Aspirations and Their Reproductive Experiences

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Improvements in the economic and social condition of women, efforts to eliminate discrimination and violence directed at women, and more equal sharing of family and childrearing responsibilities are each important goals on their own; at the same time, they are interrelated aspects of more equitable human progress worldwide. So, too, is greater access to a broad range of reproductive health services designed to meet women's individual needs. Such services include, but certainly are not limited to, better-quality family planning care for all women, regardless of age or economic and social status. Even as couples increasingly come to want and value smaller families, women ...

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