England's national Teenage Pregnancy Strategy

Lancet

Volumn 368, Issue 9550, 2006, Pages 1846-1848

  Galavotti, Christine ^a   Green, Diane C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL EDUCATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33751178780     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69751-1     Document Type: Note

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