Over-the-counter pill provision: Evidence from Jamaica

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-110

  Chin Quee, Dawn S ^a   Cuthbertson, Carmen ^a   Janowitz, Barbara ^a  

^a Health Services Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; WELFARE PROVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PHARMACY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PHARMACIES;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

EID: 33745208958     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2006.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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