US women's choices of strategies to protect themselves from violence

Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 270-275

  Runyan, Carol W ^a,b,c   Casteel, Carri ^a,b   Moracco, Kathryn E ^d   Coyne Beasley, Tamera ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34848875139     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.014415     Document Type: Article

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