Reproductive health morbidities among adolescent girls: Breaking the silence!

Studies on Ethno-Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-168

  Kulkarni, Meenal V ^a   Durge, P M ^a  

^a NKP SALVE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Health care seeking behaviour; Reproductive morbidities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856796625     PISSN: 09735070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09735070.2011.11886405     Document Type: Article

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