Factors impacting on menstrual hygiene and their implications for health promotion

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 54-62

  Lahme, Anne Mutunda ^a   Stern, Ruth ^b   Cooper, Diane ^b  

^a Akros Global Health   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

advocacy (including media advocacy); Africa; gender; health promoting schools; HIV AIDS; qualitative; reproductive health; rural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85044825162     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975916648301     Document Type: Article

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