Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa: A cross-sectional study

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 552-558

  Mathews, Shanaaz ^a   Abrahams, Naeemah ^a   Jewkes, Rachel ^a   Martin, Lorna J ^b   Lombard, Carl ^a   Vetten, Lisa ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTIMATE FEMICIDE SUICIDE; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ETHNOLOGY; FIREARM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VICTIM;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOPSY; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUICIDE; WOMEN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 46449120288     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.043786     Document Type: Article

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