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charlotte watts

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Verified email at lshtm.ac.uk
Cited by 64298

Violence against women: global scope and magnitude

C Watts, C Zimmerman - The lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
An increasing amount of research is beginning to offer a global overview of the extent of
violence against women. In this paper we discuss the magnitude of some of the most …

[HTML][HTML] Intimate partner violence and incident depressive symptoms and suicide attempts: a systematic review of longitudinal studies

KM Devries, JY Mak, LJ Bacchus, JC Child… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Depression and suicide are responsible for a substantial burden of disease
globally. Evidence suggests that intimate partner violence (IPV) experience is associated …

[HTML][HTML] The global prevalence of intimate partner homicide: a systematic review

H Stöckl, K Devries, A Rotstein, N Abrahams… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Homicide is an important cause of premature mortality globally, but evidence for
the magnitude of homicides by intimate partners is scarce and hampered by the large …

Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence

C Garcia-Moreno, HAFM Jansen, M Ellsberg, L Heise… - The lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
Background Violence against women is a serious human rights abuse and public health
issue. Despite growing evidence of the size of the problem, current evidence comes largely …

Intimate partner violence and women's physical and mental health in the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence: an observational study

M Ellsberg, HAFM Jansen, L Heise, CH Watts… - The lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Background This article summarises findings from ten countries from the WHO multi-country
study on women's health and domestic violence against women. Methods Standardised …

[BOOK][B] WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women

C García-Moreno, HAFM Jansen, M Ellsberg, L Heise… - 2005 - dspace.ceid.org.tr
Violence against women is a universal phenomenon that persists in all countries of the
world, and the perpetrators of that violence are often well known to their victims. Domestic …

[HTML][HTML] What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence? Findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence

T Abramsky, CH Watts, C Garcia-Moreno, K Devries… - BMC public health, 2011 - Springer
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and
human rights concern. Despite a growing body of research into risk factors for IPV …

The global prevalence of intimate partner violence against women

KM Devries, JYT Mak, C Garcia-Moreno, M Petzold… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Violence against women is a phenomenon that persists in all countries. Since the 1993
World Conference on Human Rights and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence …

Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial

PM Pronyk, JR Hargreaves, JC Kim, LA Morison… - The lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
Background HIV infection and intimate-partner violence share a common risk environment in
much of southern Africa. The aim of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender …

[BOOK][B] Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence

C García-Moreno, C Pallitto, K Devries, H Stöckl… - 2013 - books.google.com
Violence against women is not a new phenomenon nor are its consequences to women's
physical, mental and reproductive health. What is new is the growing recognition that acts of …