A comparative study of Jewish and Arab battered women presenting in the emergency room of a general hospital

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 69-84

  Rabin, Barbara ^a,b   Markus, Elliot ^a,b   Voghera, Nira ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cultural comparison; Domestic violence; Emergency room

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; BATTERING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SOCIAL WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ARABS; BATTERED WOMEN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES;

EID: 0032753752     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v29n02_04     Document Type: Article

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