Intimate partner violence and women's physical and mental health in the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence: an observational study
The LancetPublished 1 April 2008
Mary Ellsberg, Henrica A. F. M. Jansen, Lori Heise, Charlotte Watts, Claudia García‐Moreno
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Findings from ten countries from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women suggest intimate partner violence is associated with serious public-health consequences that should be addressed in national and global health policies and programmes.
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In addition to being a breach of human rights, intimate partner violence is associated with serious public-health consequences that should be addressed in national and global health policies and programmes.
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