Who is Using Emergency Contraception?. Awareness and Use of Emergency Contraception Among California Women and Teens

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 360-368

  Baldwin, Susie B ^a   Solorio, Rosa ^b   Washington, Donna L ^c,d   Yu, Hongjian ^e   Huang, Yii Chieh ^e   Brown, E Richard ^e  

^a Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; IMMIGRATION; INCOME; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PREGNANCY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POVERTY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 50649105278     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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