Mistreatment of Women in Childbirth: Time for Action on This Important Dimension of Violence against Women

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Jewkes, Rachel ^a,b   Penn Kekana, Loveday ^b,c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIOLENCE; BIRTH; FEMALE; HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84937805806     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001849     Document Type: Article

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