An integrated health sector response to violence against women in Malaysia: Lessons for supporting scale up

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Colombini, Manuela ^a   Mayhew, Susannah H ^a   Ali, Siti Hawa ^b   Shuib, Rashidah ^b   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Gender based violence; Integration; Intimate partner violence; Malaysia; Scale up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALAYSIA; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VIOLENCE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPOUSE ABUSE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84864669903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-548     Document Type: Article

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