Exposure to intimate partner violence reduces the protective effect that women's high education has on children's corporal punishment: A population-based study

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Salazar, Mariano ^a   Dahlblom, Kjerstin ^a   Solórzano, Lucia ^b   Herrera, Andrés ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Children's corporal punishment; Education; Interaction; IPV; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; NICARAGUA; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NICARAGUA; PREVALENCE; PUNISHMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84929504614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.24774     Document Type: Article

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