Decline of supportive attitudes among husbands toward female genital mutilation and its association to those practices in Yemen

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Al Khulaidi, Ghadah Abdulmajid ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a   Seino, Kaoruko ^a   Kizuki, Masashi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAUGHTER; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUSBAND; HUSBAND ATTITUDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED GROUPS BY MARITAL STATUS; SUPPORTIVE ATTITUDE; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTION; SPOUSES; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893175739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083140     Document Type: Article

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