Assessing intimate partner violence in health care settings leads to women's receipt of interventions and improved health

Public Health Reports

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-444

  McCloskey, Laura A ^a,c   Lichter, Erika ^b   Williams, Corrine ^c   Gerber, Megan ^d   Wittenberg, Eve ^d   Ganz, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AMBULATORY CARE; BATTERED WOMAN; HUMAN RELATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BATTERED WOMEN; BOSTON; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 33746553929     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 00333549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490612100412     Document Type: Article

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