Intimate partner violence: Last year prevalence and association with socio-economic factors among women in Madrid, Spain

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-175

  Zorrilla, Belén ^a   Pires, Marisa ^b   Lasheras, Luisa ^b   Morant, Consuelo ^a   Seoane, Luis ^b   Sanchez, Luis M ^c   Galán, Iñaki ^a   Aguirre, Ramón ^b   Ramírez, Rosa ^a   Durbán, Maria ^d  

^a Comunidad de Madrid ^*  (Spain)

^b Servicio de Prevención y Promoción de La Salud   (Spain)

^c Centro Colaborador Cochrane Madrid   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Gender; Intimate partner violence; Prevalence; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

ADULT; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950203751     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckp143     Document Type: Article

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