Improve adolescents’ access to emergency contraception

Nurse Practitioner

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 11-23

  Pollack, Jessica Stein ^a   Daley, Alison Moriarty ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; GATEKEEPING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE;

EID: 0141939483     PISSN: 03611817     EISSN: 15388662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006205-200308000-00006     Document Type: Article

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