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Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study
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The findings suggest that domestic violence is most strongly related to the status of women in a society and to the normative use of violence in conflict situations or as part of the exercise of power.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2002-11-01. It has received 835 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Domestic violence & Physical abuse.read more
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Intimate partner violence: causes and prevention
TL;DR: Primary preventive interventions should focus on improving the status of women and reducing norms of violence, poverty, and alcohol consumption.
Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol
TL;DR: Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol released revised guidelines which aim to reduce the risks associated with alcohol consumption provide universal guidance for healthy adults aged 18 years and over and guidelines specific to children and young people and to pregnant and breastfeeding women.
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Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial
Paul Pronyk,Paul Pronyk,James R Hargreaves,James R Hargreaves,Julia C. Kim,Julia C. Kim,Linda Morison,Godfrey Phetla,Charlotte Watts,Joanna Busza,John Porter +10 more
TL;DR: A combined microfinance and training intervention can lead to reductions in levels of intimate-partner violence in programme participants, and social and economic development interventions have the potential to alter risk environments for HIV and intimacy violence in southern Africa.
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The epidemiology of rape and sexual coercion in South Africa: an overview.
Rachel Jewkes,Naeemah Abrahams +1 more
TL;DR: The rape statistic for the country is currently elusive but levels of non-consensual and coerced sex are clearly very high, and international comparison needs to be approached with caution.
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Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention
TL;DR: The magnitude, contexts of occurrence, and patterns of violence, and refer to traffic-related and other unintentional injuries are reviewed, with a focus on homicide, and violence against women and children.
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Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models
Norman E. Breslow,D. G. Clayton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) are used to estimate the marginal quasi-likelihood for the mean parameters and the conditional variance for the variances, and the dispersion matrix is specified in terms of a rank deficient inverse covariance matrix.
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The symbolic construction of community
TL;DR: In this article, Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms, and describes how people symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.
Ending Violence Against Women
TL;DR: This issue of Population Reports as discussed by the authors focuses on ending violence against women and tackles primarily two types of violence: 1) abuse of women within marriage and other intimate relationships; and 2) coerced sex whether it takes place in childhood adolescence or adulthood.
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An analysis of risk markers in husband to wife violence: the current state of knowledge.
TL;DR: It seems that characteristics associated with either the husband-offender or the couple have greater utility for assessing the risk of husband to wife violence than characteristics of the wife-victim.