Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 177-183 , February 2008

Family Structure and Adolescent Sexual Behavior in a Poor Area of São Paulo, Brazil

  • Camila Alves Peres

      Affiliations

    • Aldeia do Futuro, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • George Rutherford, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Global Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Genilva Borges

      Affiliations

    • Aldeia do Futuro, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Eliana Galano

      Affiliations

    • Aldeia do Futuro, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Esther Sid Hudes, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Norman Hearst, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Norman Hearst, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Box 0900, 500 Parnassus MU3E, San Francisco, CA 94143.

Received 30 September 2006 ,Accepted 26 July 2007.

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PII: S1054-139X(07)00335-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.08.007

Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 177-183 , February 2008

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