Food insecurity and intimate partner violence among married women in Nepal

Journal of Global Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Diamond Smith, Nadia ^a   Conroy, Amy A ^a   Tsai, Alexander C ^b   Nekkanti, Manali ^c   Weiser, Sheri D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; FOOD INSECURITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IN-LAW; MALE; MARRIED WOMAN; NEPAL; NEPALESE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; SEXISM; ADOLESCENT; CATERING SERVICE; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85061121111     PISSN: 20472978     EISSN: 20472986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.09.010412     Document Type: Article

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