Prevalence and associations of recent physical intimate partner violence among women attending an Australian sexual health clinic

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-176

  Lockart, Ian ^a   Ryder, Nathan ^a,b   McNulty, Anna M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 79952104571     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.043109     Document Type: Article

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