A Realist-Informed Review of Digital Empowerment Strategies for Adolescents to Improve Their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-being.
The use of digital technologies for health has been rapidly gaining ground in the last decade, including as a strategy to empower adolescents living in urban resource-constrained settings. Nevertheless, unclarity and incoherence remain regarding which programme strategies generate which outcomes, as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Urban Health Vol. 99; no. 6; pp. 1141 - 1157 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2022
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