Understanding women's attitudes towards wife beating in Zimbabwe

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 501-508

  Hindin, Michelle J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude ethnology; Gender identity; Interpersonal relations; Odds ratio; Regression analysis; Social class; Social environment; Spouse abuse psychology ethnology; Women; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GENDER RELATIONS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; VIOLENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BATTERED WOMAN; CHILD NEGLECT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLITICS; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSE; ZIMBABWE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN; ZIMBABWE;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0042347528     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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