Contraceptive availability to adolescents: Do American values violate our most vulnerable?

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 741-745

  Elders, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; LEVONORGESTREL; NORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MEDICAID; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL CONSENT; PARENTAL NOTIFICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56549125036     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2008.178     Document Type: Review

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