Individual and contextual factors associated with mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel mixed effects analysis

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241050

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Individual and contextual factors associated with mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel mixed effects analysis

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: brightahinkorah@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Liverpool, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7415-895X

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Individual and contextual factors associated with mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel mixed effects analysis

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Published: October 22, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241050

About the Authors

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: brightahinkorah@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Liverpool, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7415-895X

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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