Beyond reproductive health: Listening to women about their health in disadvantaged beirut neighborhoods

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 614-637

  Zurayk, Huda ^a   Myntti, Cynthia ^a   Salem, Mylene T ^a   Kaddour, Afamia ^a   El Kak, Faysal ^a   Jabbour, Samer ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34547652729     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330701462017     Document Type: Article

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