Health workers' attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health services for unmarried adolescents in Ethiopia

Reproductive Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tilahun, Mesfin ^a,b   Mengistie, Bezatu ^a   Egata, Gudina ^a   Reda, Ayalu A ^c  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Kersa Woreda Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SINGLE MAN; SINGLE WOMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 84865612624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-9-19     Document Type: Article

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