Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 269-274

  Tag Eldin, Mohammed A ^a   Gadallah, Mohsen A ^a   Al Tayeb, Mahmoud N ^a   Abdel Aty, Mostafa ^b   Mansour, Esmat ^c   Sallem, Mona ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Health Insurance Organization   (Egypt)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH SURVEY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 42049089935     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.042093     Document Type: Article

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