What Do Young People from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Know about Contraception and Sexual Health?

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-49

  Selak, Sanja ^a,d   Jurić, Vesna ^b   Hren, Darko ^c   Jurić, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b Clinical Hospital Mostar   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Contraception; Contraception, postcoital; Reproductive medicine; Sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHAME; STUDENT; STUDENT T TEST; TECHNIQUE; TELEVISION; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 1642546316     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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