Associations of mass media exposure with family planning attitudes and practices in Uganda

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-31

  Gupta, Neeru ^a,c   Katende, Charles ^b   Bessinger, Ruth E ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b PATH Africa Youth Alliance Project   (Uganda)

^c MEASURE Evaluation Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BIRTH RATE; FAMILY PLANNING; MEDIA ROLE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

UGANDA;

EID: 0038656721     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2003.00019.x     Document Type: Article

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