Health and human rights in Chin State, Western Burma: A population-based assessment using multistaged household cluster sampling

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sollom, Richard ^a   Richards, Adam K ^b,c   Parmar, Parveen ^d,e   Mullany, Luke C ^c,f   Lian, Salai Bawi ^g   Iacopino, Vincent ^a,h,i   Beyrer, Chris ^f  

^a PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Global Health Access Program   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Chin Human Rights Organization   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; DETENTION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNICITY; FOOD SECURITY; FORCED LABOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYANMAR; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TORTURE; HUMAN RIGHTS;

HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MYANMAR;

EID: 79952258632     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001007     Document Type: Article

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