Does the timing of the first family planning visit still matter?

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Finer, Lawrence B ^a   Zabin, Laurie Schwab ^a  

^a Public Health   (United States)

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10. Ibid.
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