What explains between-school differences in rates of sexual experience?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Henderson, Marion ^a   Butcher, Isabella ^b   Wight, Daniel ^a   Williamson, Lisa ^a   Raab, Gillian ^c  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOLS; SCOTLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 41549084693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-53     Document Type: Article

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