“I thought cancer was one of those random things. I didn’t know cancer could be caught…”: Adolescent girls’ understandings and experiences of the HPV programme in the UK
Open Access
- 10 June 2011
- Vol. 29 (26) , 4409-4415
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.03.101
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- Medical Research Council
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