Identifying barriers to emergency contraception use among young women from various sociocultural groups in British Columbia, Canada

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-20

  Shoveller, Jean ^a   Chabot, Cathy ^a   Soon, Judith A ^a   Levine, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33847728727     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3901307     Document Type: Article

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