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• The administrative control and management should target a
smaller group to improve the effectiveness of interventions;
• Incentive measures should be persistent and improved, a system
should be established in the long run, necessary and widely
spread publicity is needed;
• Advocacy to government leaders and decision makers should
be strengthened, to raise the awareness on the complicated nature
and causes of SRB issue, and to promote a multi-sector
cooperation on intervention measures;
• Introduce the contents of balancing sex ratio at birth and related
issues into the population education of primary and middle
school curriculum, the education also should carry out
among medical school students;
• Mobilizing social participation against girls and female foetus
discrimination. The media have an important role in advocating,
and NGOs could play a role in intervention, monitoring,
and evaluation;
• Operational research and evaluation research could benefit the
intervention implementation, impact evaluation, and costeffective
evaluation of intervention measures and approaches,
as well as enabling a timely justification of the intervention
strategy.
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