Security lies in obedience - Voices of young women of a slum in Pakistan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hamid, Saima ^a,b   Johansson, Eva ^a,c   Rubenson, Birgitta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HEALTH SERVICES ACADEMY   (Pakistan)

^c NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MARRIAGE; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPOUSE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MARRIAGE; NARRATION; PAKISTAN; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SPOUSES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950850753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-164     Document Type: Article

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