Womens Health Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide
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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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BACKGROUND Death is the most extreme consequence of intimate partner violence. Female homicide studies with data on the perpetrator-victim relationship can provide insights. We compare the results of two South African national studies of female homicide with similar sampling done 10 y apart. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a retrospective national survey using a weighted cluster design of a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of gynecology and womens health
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2474-7602']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19080/jgwh.2022.24.556129