Prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana

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• 作者：Samuel H. Nyarko
• 刊名：BMC Women's Health
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：369 KB
• 刊物主题：Gynecology; Maternal and Child Health; Reproductive Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6874

文摘

Background Adolescence is a critical stage in the life course and evidence suggests that even though contraceptive use has been steadily increasing among women in Ghana over the past years, contraceptive prevalence and determinants among female adolescents is quite lacking. This paper examines the prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana.