Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 561-565 , December 2009

Contraception services for incarcerated women: a national survey of correctional health providers

  • Carolyn B. Sufrin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel.: +1 415 206 4458; fax: +1 415 206 3112.
    • ,
  • Mitchell D. Creinin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gynecologic Specialties, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • ,
  • Judy C. Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 154213, USA
    • Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 154213, USA

Received 17 March 2009 ,Revised 6 May 2009 ,Accepted 21 May 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by the Irene McLenahan Young Investigator Research Fund Award from the Magee-Womens Health Foundation.

☆☆ Presented in part as an oral presentation at the 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00295-9

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.05.126

Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 561-565 , December 2009

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