The determinants of female circumcision among adolescents from communities that practice female circumcision in two Nairobi informal settlements

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-250

  Mudege, Netsayi Noris ^a   Egondi, Thaddaeus ^b   Beguy, Donatien ^b   Zulu, Eliya M ^c  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c African Institute for Development Policy   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Education; Female genital mutilation cutting; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865454996     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2012.21.2.242     Document Type: Review

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