Measuring Sexual Behaviour: Methodological Challenges in Survey Research

Overview

Journal Sex Transm Infect

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2001 Apr 5

PMID 11287683

Citations 224

Authors

K A Fenton

A M Johnson

S McManus

B Erens

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