Fertility Control

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Habenicht, Ursula-F (Editor), Aitken, R. John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 198
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Gynecology.; Reproductive medicine.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Reproductive Medicine.

The world’s population is growing at an unsustainable rate. From a baseline ?gure of one billion in 1800, global population is predicted to exceed nine billion by 2050 and 87. 8% of this growth will be localized in less developed countries. Such uneven population growth will yield a harvest of pover...