Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Victims: An Advocacy Coalition Framework

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-353

  Schorn, Mavis N ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

contraception; emergency contraception; family planning policy; family planning services; postcoital; pregnancy; rape; unplanned

Indexed keywords

POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CHEMISTRY; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RAPE; RELIGION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CATHOLICISM; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RIGHTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAPE; TENNESSEE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33644967682     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154405283410     Document Type: Article

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