Violence: A prospective study of police and health care registrations in an urban community in Norway

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 337-341

  Steen, Knut ^a   Hunskaar, Steinar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035489274     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580240104100411     Document Type: Article

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