Consanguinity in Lebanon: Prevalence, distribution and determinants

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-517

  Barbour, Bernadette ^a   Salameh, Pascale ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MARRIED WOMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBURBAN AREA; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLAM; LEBANON; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 69249209983     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932009003290     Document Type: Article

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