TY  - SER
AU  - Abramsky, Tanya.
AU  - Garcia-Moreno, Claudia
AU  - Devries, Karen.
AU  - Kiss, Ligia.
AU  - Ellsberg, Mary
AU  - Jansen, Henrica
AU  - Heise, Lori L.
AU  - Watts, Charlotte H.
TI  - What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence?: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence
T2  - BMC Public Health
KW  - World Health Organization
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - RECOMMENDED READING
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - RISK FACTORS
N1  - BMC Public Health 2011, 11:109; Recommended reading
N2  - The main findings, recently published in the open access journal BMC Public Health are that:
•	despite wide variations in the prevalence of IPV, many factors affect IPV risk similarly across sites.
•	as far as IPV is concerned, high socio-economic status (SES) and formal marriage offer protection to women.
•	alcohol abuse, cohabitation, young age, attitudes supportive of wife beating, having outside sexual partners and growing up with domestic violence increase the risk of IPV.
•	similarly, experiencing or perpetrating other forms of violence in adulthood increase the risk of IPV.
•	since risk of IPV is highest in younger women, schools are an important setting for primary prevention activities.
•	particularly, schools have the potential to address issues of relationships, gender roles, power and coercion within existing youth violence and bullying programmes

UR  - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/109
ER  -