The buzz outside the clinics: Conversations and contraception in Nyanza Province, Kenya

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 290-307

  Rutenberg, Naomi ^a   Watkins, Susan Cotts ^b  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE--WOMEN; BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLDS; HUMAN; INFORMATION NETWORKS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KENYA; METHODOLOGY; MISINFORMATION; PEER GROUP; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDIES; SURVEYS;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ATTITUDE--WOMEN; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY SIZE; HOUSEHOLDS; INFORMATION NETWORKS; KENYA; MISINFORMATION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION--WOMEN; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDIES; SURVEYS;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KENYA; PEER GROUP; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

KENYA, NYANZA PROVINCE;

EID: 0031463130     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2137860     Document Type: Article

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