Lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted infections among women in North rural Vietnam

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lan, Pham Thi ^a,b   Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby ^a,c   Mogren, Ingrid ^d   Phuc, Ho Dang ^e   Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MARRIAGE; OCCUPATION; RURAL AREA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIET NAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649868150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-85     Document Type: Article

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