Barriers and facilitators to effective coverage of Intimate Partner Violence services for immigrant women in Spain

Health Expectations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2994-3006

  Briones Vozmediano, Erica ^a   La Parra, Daniel ^a,b   Vives Cases, Carmen ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Interuniversity Institute for Social Development and Peace   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Access and evaluation; Battered women; Emigrants and immigrants; Health care disparities; Spain; Women's health service

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIGRANT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK; SPAIN;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK; SPAIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84954540856     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12283     Document Type: Article

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