India moves towards menstrual hygiene: Subsidized sanitary napkins for rural adolescent girls - Issues and challenges

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 767-774

  Garg, Rajesh ^a,d   Goyal, Shobha ^b   Gupta, Sanjeev ^c  

^a VCSG Government Medical Sciences and Research Institute   (India)

^b Uttrakhand Dental Clinic   (India)

^c MAHATMA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Menstrual hygiene; Menstruation; Myths and misconception in menstruation; Reproductive health education; Reproductive tract infections; Rural adolescent girls; Subsidized sanitary napkins; Water

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCT; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDIA; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INDIA; MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS; MENSTRUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84860852054     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-011-0798-5     Document Type: Review

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