Gender-based violence in immigrant and spanish women: scale of the problem, responses and current policies;Violencia de género en mujeres inmigrantes y españolas: magnitud, respuestas ante el problema y políticas existentes

Gaceta Sanitaria

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 100-106

  Vives Cases, Carmen ^a,b   Gil González, Diana ^a,c   Plazaola Castaño, Juncal ^b,d   Montero Piñar, María Isabel ^b,e   Ruiz Pérez, Isabel ^b,d   Escribà Agüir, Vicenta ^f   Ortiz Barreda, Gaby ^a   Torrubiano Domínguez, Jordi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Observatorio de Políticas Públicas y Salud ^*  (Spain)

^d ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Battered women; Immigration; Interventions; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POLICY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SPAIN; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SPAIN; SPOUSE ABUSE; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72049107478     PISSN: 02139111     EISSN: 15781283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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