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Individual- and Community-Level Determinants of Contraceptive Behaviors in Young Female Migrants

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China has carried out the Two-Child Policy since 2015, but it is facing an unprecedented reproductive health problem, due to the contradiction between increasingly open-minded sexuality and family planning. According to the Report on China’s migrant population development 2017, most Chinese internal migrants are new generations (post-80s).

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Tang, F. (2020). Individual- and Community-Level Determinants of Contraceptive Behaviors in Young Female Migrants. In: Wang, P. (eds) The Health Status of Internal Migrants in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4415-6_10

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