What do medical students in Alexandria know about female genital mutilation?

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Mostafa, S R A ^a   El Zeiny, N A M ^a   Tayel, Salwa E S ^a   Moubarak, E I ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; EGYPT; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRISTIANITY; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33846023061     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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