Evaluation of Berhane Hewan: A program to delay child marriage in rural Ethiopia

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-14

  Erulkar, Annabel S ^a   Muthengi, Eunice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AGE AT MARRIAGE; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MARRIAGE; RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; RURAL SOCIETY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84865462201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01903187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3500609     Document Type: Article

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