Understanding the impact of a microfinance-based intervention on women's empowerment and the reduction of intimate partner violence in South Africa

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1794-1802

  Kim, Julia C ^a,b   Watts, Charlotte H ^b   Hargreaves, James R ^b   Ndhlovu, Luceth X ^a   Phetla, Godfrey ^a   Morison, Linda A ^b   Busza, Joanna ^b   Porter, John D H ^b   Pronyk, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RURAL AREA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA; WELLBEING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ECONOMICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 34948840889     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.095521     Document Type: Article

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