Global and Regional Estimates of Violence against Women : Prevalence and Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and non-partner Sexual Violence.
Violence against women is not a new phenomenon nor are its consequences to women's physical mentaland reproductive health. What is new is the growing recognition that acts of violence against women arenot isolated events but rather form a pattern of behaviour that violates the rights of women a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2013
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| Series: | Nonserial Publications.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Violence against women is not a new phenomenon nor are its consequences to women's physical mentaland reproductive health. What is new is the growing recognition that acts of violence against women arenot isolated events but rather form a pattern of behaviour that violates the rights of women and girls limitstheir participation in society and damages their health and well-being. When studied systematically as wasdone with this report it becomes clear that violence against women is a global public health problem thataffects approximately one third of women globally. By compiling and analysing a. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (57 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789240691117 9240691111 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
