Prevalence and determinants of the practice of genital mutilation of girls in Khartoum, Sudan

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 303-310

  Satti, Alia ^a,b   Elmusharaf, Susan ^a,b   Bedri, Hibba ^a   Idris, Tayseer ^a   Hashim, M Sir K ^a   Suliman, Gaafar I ^a   Almroth, Lars ^b  

^a Emergency Hospital   (Sudan)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH WORKER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRISTIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDWIFE; MOSLEM; PARENT COUNSELING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEDIATRICS; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SUDAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; PATERNAL AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICA; AL-KHARTUM; EAST AFRICA; KHARTOUM; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PREVALENCE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SUDAN;

EID: 34447305453     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X152827     Document Type: Article

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