The rising proportion of repeat teenage pregnancies in young women presenting for termination of pregnancy from 1991 to 2007

Contraception

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 393-396

  Collier, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Previous abortion; Previous birth; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ABORTION; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; RECURRENT ABORTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABORTION APPLICANTS; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63049099261     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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