"I love my ECPs": Challenges to bridging emergency contraceptive users to more effective contraceptive methods in Ghana

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 146-151

  L'Engle, Kelly Ladin ^a   Hinson, Laura ^b   Chin Quee, Dawn ^a  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; NORETHISTERONE; NORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDOM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KNOWLEDGE; NAUSEA; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE;

EID: 79961087488     PISSN: 14711893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jfprhc-2011-0077     Document Type: Article

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