How to develop a theory-driven evaluation design? Lessons learned from an adolescent sexual and reproductive health programme in West Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Van Belle, Sara B ^a   Marchal, Bruno ^a   Dubourg, Dominique ^a   Kegels, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA, WESTERN; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78649475236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-741     Document Type: Article

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