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Branding in children: a barbaric practice still exists in India

Branding is an inhuman traditional practice most commonly employed to treat various disorders in neonates and children in certain community in India. Though stringent law exists to prevent such harmful practices, cases of branding is not uncommon in current era.

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Autor principal: Patra, Pratap Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27217887
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.62.7968
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spelling pubmed-48627912016-05-23 Branding in children: a barbaric practice still exists in India Patra, Pratap Kumar Pan Afr Med J Case Report Branding is an inhuman traditional practice most commonly employed to treat various disorders in neonates and children in certain community in India. Though stringent law exists to prevent such harmful practices, cases of branding is not uncommon in current era. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4862791/ /pubmed/27217887 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.62.7968 Text en © Pratap Kumar Patra et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27217887
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.62.7968
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