Women's health in developing countries

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 907-922

  Rizvi, Javed H ^a   Zuberi, Nadeem F ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

developing countries; gynaecological problems; morbidities; reproductive health; women's health

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CLOMIFENE; DEXAMETHASONE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; NONOXINOL 9; PLACEBO; TAMOXIFEN; TINIDAZOLE;

ABORTION; AFRICA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER SCREENING; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONDOM; CURETTAGE; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FEVER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POSTCOITAL TEST; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STAFF TRAINING; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CONIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VACUUM ASPIRATION; VAGINITIS; VOMITING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL FISTULA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 37849186433     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.06.005     Document Type: Review

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