Assessing burden, risk factors, and perceived impact of uterine fibroids on women’s lives in rural Haiti: implications for advancing a health equity agenda, a mixed methods study
Abstract Background Uterine fibroids, the most common cause of gynecologic surgery, have a reported cumulative incidence of 59% among Black women in the U.S. Uterine fibroids negatively impact the quality of women’s lives. No study has been found in the literature about fibroids in Haiti. We conduct...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-01-01
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Series: | International Journal for Equity in Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01327-9 |