Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 75-84 , May 2004

Associations between forced sex, sexual and protective practices, and sexually transmitted diseases among a national sample of adolescent girls

  • Dawn M. Upchurch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Dawn M. Upchurch, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90095-1722.
    • ,
  • Yasamin Kusunoki, MPH

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA

Received 10 September 2003 ,Revised 13 January 2004 ,Accepted 9 March 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.03.006

Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 75-84 , May 2004

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