Emerging Changes in Reproductive Behaviour among Married Adolescent Girls in an Urban Slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 14, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 151-159

  Rashid, Sabina Faiz ^a  

^a BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

adolescents and young people; Bangladesh; ethnography; marriage; reproductive decision making; urban poverty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MARRIAGE; OBSERVATION; POLITICS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; INDUCED ABORTION; MALE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; URBAN POPULATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33745789689     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)27221-5     Document Type: Article

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