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Let's Talk About Sex: Improving Measurement of Contraceptive Use in Cross-Sectional Surveys by Accounting for Sexual Activity Recency

Suzanne O. Bell, Elizabeth Larson, Shannon N. Wood and Performance Monitoring for Action Principal Investigators Group
Global Health: Science and Practice April 2022, 10(2):e2100597; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00597
Suzanne O. Bell
aDepartment of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Elizabeth Larson
aDepartment of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Shannon N. Wood
aDepartment of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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bContributing members listed at the end of the article.
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vol. 10 no. 2 e2100597
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00597
PubMed 
35487552

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
History 
  • Received: August 24, 2021
  • Accepted: March 2, 2022
  • Published online April 29, 2022.

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© Bell et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00597

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  1. Suzanne O. Bella⇑,
  2. Elizabeth Larsona,
  3. Shannon N. Wooda,
  4. Performance Monitoring for Action Principal Investigators Groupb
  1. aDepartment of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  2. bContributing members listed at the end of the article.
  1. Correspondence to Suzanne Bell (suzannebell{at}jhu.edu).
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