Menstrual socialization, beliefs, and attitudes concerning menstruation in rural and urban Mexican women

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-67

  Marván, Maria Luisa ^a   Trujillo, Paulina ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MEXICO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949524110     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330902833362     Document Type: Article

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