Intimate partner violence, health behaviours, and chronic physical illness among South African women

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 582-585

  Gass, Jesse D ^a   Stein, Dan J ^b   Williams, David R ^c   Seedat, Soraya ^d  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CANNABIS; COCAINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLERGY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MARRIAGE; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; THYROID DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCER; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957671305     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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