Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Medical journal
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health was a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering reproductive health. It was established in 1969 as Family Planning Perspectives, obtaining its current name in 2002. It permanently ceased publication in 2020, alongside the Guttmacher Institute's other journal, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
It was published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Guttmacher Institute. The final editor-in-chief was Dore Hollander.
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