Does the UK government's teenage pregnancy strategy deal with the correct risk factors? Findings from a secondary analysis of data from a randomised trial of sex education and their implications for policy

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-27

  Allen, E ^a   Bonell, C ^b   Strange, V ^c   Copas, A ^a   Stephenson, J ^a   Johnson, A M ^a   Oakley, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUAL HEALTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK FACTORS; SEX EDUCATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846327631     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.040865     Document Type: Article

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