Women’s choice between indigenous and western contraception in urban mozambique

Women and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1-17

  Agadjanian, Victor ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CONTRACEPTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HERB; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MOZAMBIQUE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, PROGESTIN; CONTRACEPTIVE AVAILABILITY; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS CHOSEN--WOMEN; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS--SIDE EFFECTS; CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEPO-PROVERA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; FAMILY PLANNING; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MOZAMBIQUE; PORTUGUESE SPEAKING AFRICA; RESEARCH REPORT; WOMEN;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MOZAMBIQUE; URBAN HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0032450407     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v28n02_01     Document Type: Article

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