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Non‐Acceptance of Puerperal Sterilization
Author(s) -
Palaniappan B.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1976.tb00095.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sterilization (economics) , female sterilization , obstetrics and gynaecology , parity (physics) , family planning , gynecology , obstetrics , family medicine , pregnancy , research methodology , population , environmental health , physics , particle physics , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market , foreign exchange , genetics , biology
Palaniappan, B. (Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Kilpauk Medical College, Madras, India 600010). Non‐acceptance of puerperal sterilization. A study . Int J Gynaecol Obstet 14 :505–508, 1976. This is an analysis of reasons given by 800 women who were hospitalized for deliveries at the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in Madras for refusing puerperal sterilization. The cases are analysed by socio‐demographic characteristics, age and parity. The most common reasons given were “inability to do manual work after the operation”, “husband objects”, and “necessity for prolonged rest”. The author suggests ways of dealing with these barriers to sterilization.