Are affluent, well-educated, career-orientated women knowledgeable users of the oral contraceptive pill?

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-309

  Van Der Westhuizen, Megan ^a   Hall, David R ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAREER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 33644806248     PISSN: 14711893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1783/147118905774480743     Document Type: Article

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