Intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion: global barriers to women's reproductive control

Jay G Silverman; Anita Raj

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001723

Intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion: global barriers to women's reproductive control

PLoS Med. 2014 Sep 16;11(9):e1001723. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001723. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Jay G Silverman¹, Anita Raj¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America; Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Jay Silverman and Anita Raj discuss the policies and interventions required to address the range of poor reproductive outcomes for women and adolescents, including loss of reproductive control, associated with intimate partner violence.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Coercion*
Female
Global Health / ethnology*
Global Health / trends
Humans
Reproductive Behavior / ethnology*
Sexual Behavior / ethnology
Spouse Abuse / ethnology*
Spouse Abuse / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

Funding supporting development of this manuscript was received from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Grant #2011-37366; Principal Investigator: AR). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.