Health care providers' missed opportunities for preventing femicide

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 373-380

  Sharps, Phyllis W ^a   Koziol McLain, Jane ^a   Campbell, Jacquelyn ^a   McFarlane, Judith ^b   Sachs, Carolyn ^c   Xu, Xiao ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Health care utilization; Homicide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FEMICIDE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INJURY; MENTAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0034766708     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.2001.0902     Document Type: Article

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