Health as a context for social and gender activism: Female volunteer health workers in Iran

Population and Development Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 487-510

  Hoodfar, Homa ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; FEMINISM; GENDER ROLE; HEALTH WORKER; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; IRAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; VOLUNTARY WORKER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; IRAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

IRAN;

EID: 77957161799     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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