Human Rights Abuses and Concerns about Women's Health and Human Rights in Southern Iraq

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1471-1479

  Amowitz, Lynn L ^a,b,c   Kim, Glen ^c   Reis, Chen ^b   Asher, Jana L ^d   Iacopino, Vincent ^b  

^a Physicians for Human Rights ^*  (United States)

^b PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Martus Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARAB; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERVIEW; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MILITARY SERVICE; MOSLEM; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TORTURE; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 1642397530     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.12.1471     Document Type: Article

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