Female genital mutilation among Iraqi Kurdish women: A cross-sectional study from Erbil city

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yasin, Berivan A ^a   Al Tawil, Namir G ^b   Shabila, Nazar P ^b   Al Hadithi, Tariq S ^b  

^a General Directorate of Health   (Iraq)

^b HAWLER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; HUMAN; IRAQ; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAQ; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883530010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-809     Document Type: Article

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