(How) Can We Reduce Violence Against Women by 50% over the Next 30 Years?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Jewkes, Rachel ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; DEATH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FUNDING; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RAPE; VIOLENCE PREVENTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; MALE; RESEARCH; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RAPE; RESEARCH; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84922375509     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001761     Document Type: Article

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