Rural adolescent pregnancy: A view from the south

Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Bennett, Trude ^a   Skatrud, Julia Declcrque ^b   Guild, Priscilla ^a   Loda, Frank ^c   Klerman, Lorraine V ^b  

^a School of Public

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; RACE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH RATE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY RATE; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345726093     PISSN: 00147354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2953413     Document Type: Article

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