Hygienic menstrual practices among tribal adolescents in India
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Improving quality of life with new menstrual hygiene practices among adolescent tribal girls in rural Gujarat, India.
The Government of India has started a new scheme aimed at offering sanitary pads at a subsidized rate to adolescent girls in rural areas. This paper addresses menstrual health and hygiene practices among adolescent girls in a rural, tribal region of South Gujarat, India, and their experiences using old cloths, a new soft cloth (falalin) and sanitary pads. Qualitative and quantitative data were ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population medicine
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2654-1459']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/163956