Sexual health and risk behaviour among East Asian adolescents in British Columbia.
Despite the large number of adolescents of East Asian origin in Canada, there is limited research on sexual health among this population. A first step to develop strategies for sexual health promotion for adolescents is to document the prevalence of sexual behaviours. This study estimated the preval...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 13 - 25 |
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University of Toronto Press
2013
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