Confronting Intimate Partner Violence: A Global Health Priority
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Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health
I n the last two decades since the Beijing Conference on Women, violence against women and girls has been increasingly recognized as a significant human rights and public health issue affecting all societies. The World Health Organization recently estimated that at least one in three women throughout the world have experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner, or sexual violen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0027-2507
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20259