Male circumcision: Perspectives of doctors in southern India [4]

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-

  Tetali, Shailaja ^a   Choudhury, Lincoln P ^b   Cash, Richard A ^c   Ouyang, Helen ^d   Greaves, Felix ^a  

^a Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT KERALA   (India)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CIRCUMCISION; CONDOM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PENIS CARCINOMA; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RISK REDUCTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL CLASS; STIGMA; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PHYSICIANS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 34548183043     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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