Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan: Description and Associated Factors

Women and Health

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 537-551

  Saleem, Rozhgar A ^a   Othman, Nasih ^b   Fattah, Fattah H ^c   Hazim, Luma ^d   Adnan, Berivan ^d  

^a Maternity Unit Preventive Health Department   (Iraq)

^b SULAIMANI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

^c Department of Health ^*  (Iraq)

^d Preventive Health Department   (Iraq)

Author keywords

female genital mutilation; Iraq; Kurdistan; risk factors; survey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAQ; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; IRAQ; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882240201     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2013.815681     Document Type: Article

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