Measuring Physical Violence and Rape Against Somali Women Using the Neighborhood Method

Violence Against Women

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 798-816

  Parcesepe, Angela ^a   Stark, Lindsay ^b   Roberts, Leslie ^b   Boothby, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

physical violence; refugee; sexual violence

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; FEMALE; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; RAPE; REFUGEE CAMP; SAMPLING; SOMALI (CITIZEN); ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ABUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREVALENCE; RAPE; REFUGEES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOMALIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84965124051     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801215613852     Document Type: Article

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