Health-sector responses to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income settings: A review of current models, challenges and opportunities

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 635-642

  Colombini, Manuela ^a   Mayhew, Susannah ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES; LOW INCOME HOUSING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERVICE PROVISION; VIOLENCE;

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FAMILY PLANNING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENTAL HEALTH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 48749130378     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906     Document Type: Review

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