Race, Ethnicity and Differences in Contraception Among Low-Income Women: Methods Received By Family PACT Clients, California, 2001-2007

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-187

  Dehlendorf, Christine ^a   Foster, Diana Greene ^a   de Bocanegra, Heike Thiel ^a   Brindis, Claire ^a   Bradsberry, Mary ^a   Darney, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; HUMAN; PARITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RACE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PARITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED;

EID: 80052440728     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: 19312393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/4318111     Document Type: Article

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