Volume 23 - Article 11 | Pages 293–334
Measuring pregnancy planning: An assessment of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among urban, south Indian women
By Corinne Rocca, Suneeta Krishnan, Geraldine Barrett, Mark Wilson
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