Listening to "felt needs": Investigating genital prolapse in Western Nepal

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 166-175

  Bonetti, Tiphaine Ravenel ^a   Erpelding, Anne ^b   Pathak, Laxmi Raj ^c  

^a Ger Agy for Technical Cooperation   (Nepal)

^b Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^c Minister for Health and Population Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

genital prolapse; Nepal; reproductive morbidity; women's health

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPAREUNIA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MICTURITION DISORDER; NEPAL; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SELF REPORT; SEXUALITY; SITTING; STANDING; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL PRURITUS; WALKING; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; ANECDOTES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PELVIC FLOOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 2442430488     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(04)23110-X     Document Type: Article

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