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Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre
Background - Violence against Women is a major public health issue, and it is universally under reported. Objective - To conduct an injury surveillance of severe or life threatening violent acts against women, to determine the demographics of the injured women and to identify the nature of the perpe...
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2016
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| author | Dedekind, Britta |
| author2 | Nicol, Andrew |
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| description | Background - Violence against Women is a major public health issue, and it is universally under reported. Objective - To conduct an injury surveillance of severe or life threatening violent acts against women, to determine the demographics of the injured women and to identify the nature of the perpetrators. Methods - A standardized structured questionnaire administered in an interview conducted on female patients admitted to the Trauma Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital as a result of interpersonal violence. Age, level of education, employment status, housing and substance abuse was recorded. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/19908 Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre Dedekind, Britta Nicol, Andrew Kahn, Delawir Surgery Background - Violence against Women is a major public health issue, and it is universally under reported. Objective - To conduct an injury surveillance of severe or life threatening violent acts against women, to determine the demographics of the injured women and to identify the nature of the perpetrators. Methods - A standardized structured questionnaire administered in an interview conducted on female patients admitted to the Trauma Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital as a result of interpersonal violence. Age, level of education, employment status, housing and substance abuse was recorded. 2016-06-02T08:49:34Z 2016-06-02T08:49:34Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MMed http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19908 eng application/pdf Department of Surgery Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Surgery Dedekind, Britta Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| title_full | Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| title_fullStr | Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| title_full_unstemmed | Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| title_short | Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre |
| title_sort | violence against women a prospective study of women presenting to a south african trauma centre |
| topic | Surgery |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19908 |
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