Contraceptive use among Jamaican teenage mothers
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Contraceptive use among Jamaican teenage mothers.
OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of contraceptive use among teenage mothers who were participating, and teenage mothers who were not participating, in a program in Jamaica that had been established to deal with the country's serious problem of repeat pregnancies among adolescents. METHODS A historical cohort design was used to assess the impact that the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation...
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Acknowledgments: Funding for some of the analyses presented in this paper comes from NICHD Grant Number RO1 HD30861. We would like to thank John Marcotte for his statistical consultation and Sean Williams for the extensive help he has provided conducting the data analyses. The opinions expressed are the authors' views and do not reflect the position of the Urban Institute, the National Center f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1020-4989
DOI: 10.1590/s1020-49892002000300003