Reproductive health education of conscripts in Turkish Armed Forces: first evaluation of training courses.
Background: In the frame of the Reproductive Health Program of Turkish Armed Forces, conscripts have been given 1-day participatory, interactive courses by the field military medical trainers in all military garrisons.Methods: Pre- and posttest knowledge levels of soldiers were tested by 25 true-fal...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 172; no. 12; pp. 1254 - 1260 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2007
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