Oral contraceptive and smoking mortality. Authors reply [letter]
We believe that Vessey and colleagues underestimated mortality associated with hormone use and that the comparison in their study between smoking mortality and hormonerelated mortality is misleading for two reasons. (excerpt)
The primary purpose of the study is to find out the socio-economic demographic and health variables influencing the family planning acceptance in the thirty newly formed districts of Orissa. The study seeks to answer the following questions. What is the dominant set of variables influencing the family planning performance during a given period of time in the districts of Orissa? What are the direct and indirect effects of these variables on the Couple Protection Rate (CPR) in the districts of Orissa? What are the joint effects of these variables on the CPR in the districts of Orissa? (excerpt)