The Nature of Things

Women of Kerala / Vortex (27x7)

Ausstrahlung: Nov 26, 1986

Describes a program in Kerala, a state in southern India, where a combination of contraception, voluntary sterilization, increased education, a lowered rate of infant mortality, and the extension of health care to impoverished rural areas has produced a dramatic decrease in the birth rate. Also, scientific and technical research focused on the vortex.