Using mHealth to support postabortion contraceptive use: Results from a feasibility study in Urban Bangladesh

JMIR Formative Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Biswas, Kamal Kanti ^a   Hossain, Altaf ^b   Chowdhury, Rezwana ^a   Andersen, Kathryn ^a   Sultana, Sharmin ^a   Shahidullah, S M ^a   Pearson, Erin ^c  

^a IPAS   (United States)

^b Bangladesh Assoc Prev Septic A   (Bangladesh)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Contraceptive usage; mHealth; Postabortion contraception

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075675975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2561326X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196//formative.5151     Document Type: Article

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