Pathway to social justice: Research on human rights and gender-based violence in a Rwandan refugee camp

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-157

  Pavlish, Carol ^a   Ho, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gender based; Human; Justice; Refugees; Rights; Rwanda; Social; Violence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RWANDA; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; RWANDA; SOCIAL JUSTICE; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 67650159974     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0b013e3181a3b0c4     Document Type: Article

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