Responding to the Syrian crisis: The needs of women and girls

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9923, 2014, Pages 1179-1181

  Sami, Samira ^a   Williams, Holly A ^a   Krause, Sandra ^b   Onyango, Monica A ^c   Burton, Ann ^d   Tomczyk, Barbara ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Women's Commn Refugee Women/C   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC NEEDS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FOOD SECURITY; FRUSTRATION; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL CARE; NOTE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PLANNING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; REFUGEE; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TRANSACTIONAL SEX; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WAR; ANXIETY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LEBANON; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL EXPLOITATION; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ALTRUISM; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; REFUGEES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SYRIA; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84897103738     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62034-6     Document Type: Note

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