Physical violence against intimate partners and related exposures to violence among South African men
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Physical violence against intimate partners and related exposures to violence among South African men.
BACKGROUND Despite high rates of intimate partner violence in South Africa, there have been no national studies of men's perpetration of violence against female partners. METHODS We analyzed data from the South Africa Stress and Health Study, a cross-sectional, nationally representative study, specifically examining data for men who had ever been married or had ever cohabited with a female pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.071655