Health care system responses to children exposed to domestic violence

Future of Children

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 111-121

  Culross, Patti L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATTERED WOMAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

EID: 0033506773     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1602785     Document Type: Review

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5. The term domestic violence will follow the definition from the American Medical Association. See American Medical Association. Diagnostic and treatment guidelines on domestic violence. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1992. Although men are sometimes victims of intimate partner violence, this article considers only women because women are the primary caretakers of children and because women are the most seriously threatened and injured victims in the majority of cases of domestic violence. See Greenfeld, L.A., Rand, M.R., Craven, D., et al. Violence by intimates: Analysis of data on crimes by current or former spouses, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998; see also Craven, D. Sex differences in violent victimization, 1994. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997. The term child abuse and neglect will follow the definition from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. See Sedlak, A.J., and Broadhurst, D.D. Third national incidence study of child abuse and neglect, final report. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1996.
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