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Autore: | García-Moreno Claudia |
Titolo: | Global and regional estimates of violence against women : prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence / / written by Claudia García-Moreno [and five others] |
Pubblicazione: | Geneva, Switzerland : , : World Health Organization, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (57 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.8292 |
364.15082 | |
Soggetto topico: | Women - Violence against |
Women - Crimes against | |
Abused women | |
Sex crimes | |
Sexual abuse victims | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | "World Health Organization, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council"--Title page. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-43). |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Methodology -- 2. Results : lifetime prevalence estimates -- 3. Results : the health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence -- 4. Summary and conclusions. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Global and regional estimates of violence against women |
ISBN: | 92-4-069111-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464373303321 |
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