Understanding gender-based violence perpetration to create a safer future for women and girls

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Decker, Michele R ^a   Miller, Elizabeth ^b   Illangasekare, Samantha ^a   Silverman, Jay G ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJURY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RAPE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; MALE; RAPE; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 84887601460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70085-8     Document Type: Letter

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