The risk of return: Intimate partner violence in Northern Uganda's armed conflict

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 152-159

  Annan, Jeannie ^a   Brier, Moriah ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; SEXUAL CONFLICT; VIOLENCE;

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EDUCATION; EXTENDED FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RAPE; SEXISM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UGANDA; VERBAL HOSTILITY; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PRISONERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 70649091223     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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