Preventing gender-based violence victimization in adolescent girls in lower-income countries: Systematic review of reviews

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 192, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-13

  Yount, Kathryn M ^a,b   Krause, Kathleen H ^a   Miedema, Stephanie S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Intervention; Low and middle income countries; Systematic review of reviews; Violence against women and girls; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPOWERMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIOLENCE; WOMENS STATUS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; ECOLOGY; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; GIRL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVENTION; SKILL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VOICE; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; POVERTY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; HUMANS; POVERTY; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029695077     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.038     Document Type: Review

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