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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT > HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT > HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

Preferred term

HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES  

Entry terms

  • ADVERSE HEALTH PRACTICES

Note

  • M
  • OHCHR Fact Sheet No.23: Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children

Scope note

  • Any traditional or contemporary medical or socially sanctioned practices that can be harmful

History note

  • Term changed from ADVERSE HEALTH PRACTICES November 1997

Identifier

  • https://lib-thesaurus.un.org/LIB/DHLUNBISThesaurus.nsf/fee3fb01c865ac5d85256cf400648b1f/bac09c0c6a3f85db85256aa0005fedc2
  • T0005694

In other languages

  • الممارسات التقليدية الضارة

    Arabic

  • 有害传统做法

    Chinese

  • PRATIQUES TRADITIONNELLES NOCIVES

    French

  • PRATIQUES SANITAIRES NOCIVES
  • Вредные традиционные обычаи

    Russian

  • PRACTICAS TRADICIONALES DESFAVORABLES

    Spanish

  • PRACTICAS SANITARIAS DESFAVORABLES

URI

http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1002819

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