Drought and intimate partner violence towards women in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2011-2018: A population-based study.

BACKGROUND:Drought has many known deleterious impacts on human health, but little is known about the relationship between drought and intimate partner violence (IPV). We aimed to evaluate this relationship and to assess effect heterogeneity between population subgroups among women in 19 sub-Saharan...

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Main Authors: Adrienne Epstein, Eran Bendavid, Denis Nash, Edwin D Charlebois, Sheri D Weiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-03-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003064