Help-Seeking Behavior for Intimate Partner Violence among Racial Minority Women in Canada

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-108

  Hyman, Ilene ^b   Forte, Tonia ^a   Du Mont, Janice ^a,b   Romans, Sarah ^a,b   Cohen, Marsha M ^a,b  

^a WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUP; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; SOCIAL WORK;

ADULT; AGED; BATTERED WOMEN; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 61549104070     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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