Emergency contraception in Mexico City: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among providers and potential clients after a 3-year introduction effort

Contraception

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 321-329

  Heimburger, Angela ^a   Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^b   Schiavon, Raffaela ^c   Langer, Ana ^a   Mejia, Guillermina ^d   Corona, Georgina ^e   Del Castillo, Eduardo ^f   Ellertson, Charlotte ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^d Unidad de Investigación y Evaluación   (Mexico)

^e Testamos Funcionando (Testa)   (Mexico)

^f Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida GIRE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emergency contraception; Knowledge; Mexico; Practices

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEXICO; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCIENCE; TELEPHONE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, COMBINED; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0036851145     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00368-2     Document Type: Article

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