Contraception use and pregnancy among 15-24 year old South African women: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey

BMC Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  MacPhail, Catherine ^a   Pettifor, Audrey E ^a,b   Pascoe, Sophie ^c   Rees, Helen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFE SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFE SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 38049150141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-5-31     Document Type: Article

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