Menarche stories: Reminiscences of college students from Lithuania, Malaysia, Sudan, and the United States

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 303-312

  Chrisler, Joan C ^a   Zittel, Carolyn B ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARAB COUNTRIES; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BODY IMAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LITHUANIA; MALAYSIA; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AFRICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS--WOMEN; PUBERTY--WOMEN; QUALITATIVE EVALUATION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; SCHOOL; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDENT; STUDENTS--WOMEN; SUDAN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ARAB COUNTRIES; ASIA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; EUROPE; EVALUATION; INTERVIEWS; LITHUANIA; MALAYSIA; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AFRICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS--WOMEN; PUBERTY--WOMEN; QUALITATIVE EVALUATION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SCHOOLS; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDENTS--WOMEN; SUDAN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALAYSIA; MENARCHE; STUDENTS; SUDAN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0032107049     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/073993398246287     Document Type: Article

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