Contraceptive knowledge and use among low-income Hispanic immigrant women and non-Hispanic women

Contraception

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 270-275

  Garcés Palacio, Isabel C ^a   Altarac, Maja ^b   Scarinci, Isabel C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraceptives; Hispanics; Immigrants; Low income; Women

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KNOWLEDGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUP; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; VASECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; POVERTY; TENNESSEE;

EID: 40649089357     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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