Community embedded reproductive health interventions for adolescents in Latin America: Development and evaluation of a complex multi-centre intervention

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Decat, Peter ^a   Nelson, Erica ^b   De Meyer, Sarah ^a   Jaruseviciene, Lina ^c   Orozco, Miguel ^d   Segura, Zoyla ^e   Gorter, Anna ^e   Vega, Bernardo ^f   Cordova, Kathya ^g   Maes, Lea ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^a   Leye, Els ^a   Degomme, Olivier ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^d Centro de Investigacions Y Estudios de la Salud (CIES)   (Nicaragua)

^e Instituto CentroAmericano de la Salud   (Nicaragua)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^g South Group (SG)   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Action research; Adolescents; Community based participatory research; Intervention mapping; Latin America; Reproductive health; Research design; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872156563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-31     Document Type: Article

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