Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 5 , Pages 329-334 , September 2010

Factors Affecting the Willingness of Counselors to Integrate Preconception Care into Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics

  • Christopher S. Parker, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Christopher S. Parker, 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, E-64, Atlanta, GA 30333; Phone: 404-498-6731.
    • ,
  • Sana Ghaddar, PhD, RD

      Affiliations

    • TUI University, Cypress, California
    • ,
  • Qing Zhang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
    • ,
  • Brandi Cooke

      Affiliations

    • National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia

Received 20 January 2010 ,Revised 17 May 2010 ,Accepted 27 May 2010.

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 The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2010.05.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 5 , Pages 329-334 , September 2010

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