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Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology Volume 16, 1995 - Issue 1
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Private health insurance and a healthy personality: new risk factors for obstetric intervention?

J. Fisher Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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A. Smith Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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J. Astbury Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Pages 1-9 | Received 28 Feb 1994, Accepted 23 Aug 1994, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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