Adolescent mental health and risky sexual behaviour
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Risky adolescent sexual behaviors and reproductive health in young adulthood.
CONTEXT Little research links adolescent risk behaviors to reproductive health outcomes beyond adolescence, although young adults--men and women in their early 20s--bear a disproportionate burden of STDs and unintended childbearing. METHODS To assess whether individuals who engaged in risk behaviors during adolescence had increased risk of negative reproductive health outcomes in young adulth...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.251