Risk factors for domestic physical violence: National cross-sectional household surveys in eight southern African countries

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Andersson, Neil ^a   Ho Foster, Ari ^b   Mitchell, Steve ^b   Scheepers, Esca ^c   Goldstein, Sue ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE GUERRERO   (Mexico)

^b Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales   (South Africa)

^c Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; BOTSWANA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LESOTHO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA; OCCUPATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLYGAMY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; SWAZILAND; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE; AFRICA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; CENSUSES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 35649028393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-7-11     Document Type: Article

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