Interpersonal Violence Among Women Seeking Welfare: Unraveling Lives
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Contraceptive Patterns Among Women With a History of Interpersonal Violence
Paper Presentation Objective I ntimate partner violence is a significant public health issue, with approximately 25% of women reporting lifetime violence. Intimate partner violence has been associated with unintended pregnancy, possibly due to partner coercion or interference with contraceptive. The specific aim of this study was to describe the association between intimate partner violence and...
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OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women seeking termination of pregnancy (TOP) in comparison to women seeking contraceptive counseling. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Family planning unit, Uppsala University Hospital. POPULATION Women seeking TOP (n = 635) and women seeking contraceptive counseling (n = 591) answered a self-administered ques...
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BACKGROUND Research on interpersonal violence towards women has commonly focused on individual or proximate-level determinants associated with violent acts ignores the roles of larger structural systems that shape interpersonal violence. Though this research has contributed to an understanding of the prevalence and consequences of violence towards women, it ignores how patterns of violence are ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2004.057786