Designing a package of sexual and reproductive health and HIV outreach services to meet the heterogeneous preferences of young people in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment

Health Economics Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Michaels Igbokwe, Christine ^a   Lagarde, Mylene ^a   Cairns, John ^a   Terris Prestholt, Fern ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete choice experiment; Family planning; HIV; Outreach; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Young people

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH; SPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955619022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21911991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-015-0046-6     Document Type: Article

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