Expanded state-funded family planning services: Estimating pregnancies averted by the family PACT program in California, 1997-1998

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1341-1346

  Foster, Diana Greene ^a   Klaisle, Cynthia M ^a   Blum, Maya ^a   Bradsberry, Mary E ^a   Brindis, Claire D ^a   Stewart, Felicia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; LEVONORGESTREL; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

EID: 3442880696     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.8.1341     Document Type: Review

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