Parental control and monitoring of young people's sexual behaviour in rural North-Western Tanzania: Implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wamoyi, Joyce ^a,b   Fenwick, Angela ^b   Urassa, Mark ^a   Zaba, Basia ^a,c   Stones, William ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; REPRODUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PARENTING; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951552279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-106     Document Type: Article

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