Knowledge and attitudes about the differences between emergency contraception and medical abortion among middle-class women and men of reproductive age in Mexico City

Contraception

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 417-426

  Gould, Heather ^a   Ellertson, Charlotte ^b   Corona, Georgina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (Mexico)

^c AC ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Emergency contraception; Medical abortion; Mexico; Mifepristone; Misoprostol; Post coital contraception

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RELIGIOUS GROUP; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL;

EID: 0041855266     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00410-9     Document Type: Article

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