Domestic violence: The Lebanese experience

Public Health

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-219

  Usta, Jinan ^a   Farver, Jo Ann M ^b   Pashayan, Nora ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Lebanon; Primary health care; Screening

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; VIOLENCE; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OFFENDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; SYMPTOM; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BATTERED WOMEN; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33846862446     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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