Reaching the hard to reach: Longitudinal investigation of adolescents' attendance at an after-school sexual and reproductive health programme in Western Cape, South Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mathews, Catherine ^a,b   Eggers, Sander Matthijs ^c   De Vries, Petrus J ^b   Mason Jones, Amanda J ^b,d   Townsend, Loraine ^a,b   Aarø, Leif Edvard ^e,f   De Vries, Hein ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX EDUCATION; SEX OFFENSES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84936139870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1963-3     Document Type: Article

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