Women's Status and Violence against Young Married Women in Rural Nepal

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lamichhane, Prabhat ^a   Puri, Mahesh ^a   Tamang, Jyotsna ^a   Dulal, Bishnu ^a  

^a Centre for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN RELATION; MARRIAGE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RAPE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COERCION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARITAL STATUS; NEPAL; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREVALENCE; RAPE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054816703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-19     Document Type: Article

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