Improved contraceptive use likely driver of teen pregnancy declines

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Acknowledgments

This work was funded by a grant from the JPB Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Guttmacher Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination (NIH grant 5 R24 HD074034).

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Lindberg LD, Santelli J and Desai S, Understanding the decline in adolescent fertility in the United States, 2007-2012, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2016, http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(16)30172-0/fulltext