The silent burden of gynaecological disease in low income countries

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1177-1179

  Walraven, Gijs ^a   Zuberi, Nadeem ^b   Temmerman, Marleen ^c  

^a Secretariat de Son Altesse l'Aga Khan   (France)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; EGYPT; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GAMBIA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NOTE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; INCOME; MORTALITY; POVERTY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; POVERTY AREAS;

EID: 25144451434     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00707.x     Document Type: Note

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