Age at Menarche and first pregnancy among psychosocially at-risk adolescents

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1822-1824

  Dunbar, Jessica ^a   Sheeder, Jeanelle ^a,b   Lezotte, Dennis ^a   Dabelea, Dana ^a   Stevens Simon, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTRACEPTION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RACE DIFFERENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; MATERNAL AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; COLORADO; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRAVIDITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52449129920     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120444     Document Type: Article

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