Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.
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...Assistant Director General Family, Women and Children’s Health World Health Organization Oleg Chestnov Assistant Director General Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health World Health Organization Peter Piot Director and Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence 1 AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome aOR adjusted odds ratio CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CES-D Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale CI confidence interval CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature CTS Conflict Tactics Scale DHS Demographic and Health Survey DSM-IV Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition GBD Global Burden of Disease GENACIS Gender, alcohol and culture: an international study HIV human immunodeficiency virus IMEMR Index Medicus for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region IMSEAR Index Medicus for the WHO South-East Asia Region IVAWS International Violence Against Women Survey LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine OR odds ratio PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder RHS reproductive health survey (CDC) SAMRC South African Medical Research Council STI sexually transmitted infection USA United States of America WHO World Health Organization WPRIM Western Pacific Region Index Medicus Abbreviations 2 Global and regional estimates of violence against women “There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”...
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...The Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) (20) has been widely used in the United States of America (USA) and elsewhere to document the prevalence of physical partner violence, framing violent acts in the context of relationship conflict....
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...The Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) (20 ) has been widely used in the United States of America (USA) and elsewhere to document the prevalence of physical partner violence, framing violent acts in the context of relationship conflict....
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...The WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women (21) and the violence against women module of the DHS (22 ) are adapted versions of the CTS that also ask about a set of behaviourally specific acts that women experience, without framing the questions as gradations of relationship conflict, but rather as independent acts in a constellation of experiences Section 1: Methodology 10 Global and regional estimates of violence against women encompassing partner violence....
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...Some women try to manage the negative consequences of abuse through the use of alcohol, prescription medication, tobacco or other drugs (13, 14)....
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...There is growing consensus on how to measure exposures to different forms of interpersonal violence, with most work focusing on the measurement of violence by an intimate partner (15, 16)....
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