Pharmacy provision of medical abortifacients in a Latin American city

Contraception

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 394-399

  Lara, Diana ^a   Abuabara, Katrina ^b   Grossman, Daniel ^b   Díaz Olavarrieta, Claudia ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (Mexico)

^b IBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Cytotec; Latin America; Misoprostol; Pharmacies

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; MISOPROSTOL;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MISOPROSTOL; PHARMACISTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33749531037     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2006.05.068     Document Type: Article

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