In Turkey, pregnant women's risk of domestic abuse is linked to education,...

International Family Planning Perspectives;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......pregnancy (46% vs. 28%). Abuse was more common among women who smoked regularly...each individual type of abuse were elevated among women who smoked regularly...The risk of overall abuse was elevated among women who were in the second...

A Career and Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors/Making the...

Violence and Victims;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......pages. Making the Connections: Women, Work, & Abuse. Patricia A. Murphy, Paul M...Chicago, contends that while abuse issues for women and men may be similar, work...Murphy describes the effects of abuse on women and how trauma can impact women...

Women's rights organization hosts panel on abuse

University Wire;  March 5, 2008 ;     536 words ......UWIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Abuse against women on college campuses is more rampant...discussed the different forms of abuse women are subject to and how certain...24-year-old women are most vulnerable to abuse. Women need to be more careful about...

South Africa: women demand more punishment for abuse. (Reports from Around...

WIN News;  January 1, 1995 ;     683 words ......respect and love women'. . . Although most health workers are women, most cases of women abuse are not reported...to start seeing women abuse as a crime. And...believes men who abuse should be punished...crimes against women have to be harsh...

Prevalence survey of abuse in women at urgent care clinics.(Tips from...

American Family Physician;  August 1, 1998 ;     419 words ......prevalence of physical and sexual abuse in women presenting to an urgent care...health care providers about abuse. Women who presented to an urgent...physician or nurse. Of the women who reported recent abuse, 71 percent reported never...

Report blasts global abuse of women's rights `Conflict zone' governments...

The Boston Globe;  March 8, 1994 ;     606 words ......in protecting the rights of women. The group echoed charges of abuse made recently by New York...which seeks to elevate the abuse of women to the status of an internationally...credible reports of the sexual abuse of women by police," throughout Pakistan...

When Women Kill the Men Who Abuse Them

The Washington Post;  April 21, 1987 ;     700+ words ......think of to end the abuse-by ending the life...how many of these women are in prisons today...of psychological abuse that leads to psychic...in which battered women had killed the abusing...Self-Defense Program of Women Against Abuse, a Philadelphia organization...

WOMEN FACE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, REPORT SAYS

United Press International;  March 6, 2001 ;     378 words ......International 03-06-2001 Women face human rights abuse, report says NEW YORK, Mar...described the perpetrators of abuse of women as "agents of the state...report also said that some women are more vulnerable to abuse because of race, ethnicity...

Domestic abuse of pregnant women in Mexico.(Update)(Brief Article)

International Family Planning Perspectives;  December 1, 2003 ;     235 words ......1) Some 24% of women reported that they...emotional or sexual abuse since becoming pregnant...to that reporting abuse in the year before...However, among women who had been mistreated...Violence against women in Mexico: a study of abuse before and during...

Women against abuse see legislation as a 'victory'

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Philadelphia Tribune, The 11-01-1994 Women against abuse see legislation as a 'victory...makes referrals, especially to Women Against Abuse. "We get calls from women who...Development and Public Relations for Women Against Abuse considered the legislation...

Women who report abuse during pregnancy have an elevated risk of adverse...

International Family Planning Perspectives;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Pregnant women reporting abuse are at increased risk for certain...outcomes: When compared with women who report no abuse, those reporting verbal abuse...same intervention offered to the women who reported abuse (the telephone number of a crisis...

Partner Abuse in Physically Disabled Women: A Proposed Model for...

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......abuse triggers, responses of the women, the abuse episode, the after-effects...2004) confirmed that although abuse against women is pervasive, it is not readily...disabilities are at a higher risk for abuse than women who do not have disabilities...

Study links depression in women with migraine to childhood abuse

The Hindustan Times;  September 4, 2007 ;     474 words ......revealed that childhood abuse is more common in women with migraine, who...particularly childhood abuse, predispose women to health problems...migraine patients about abuse history. By questioning women about their abuse history we'll be able...

March held in support of 'Women Against Abuse'

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  May 19, 2000 ;     477 words ......05-19-2000 March held in support of `Women Against Abuse' Any woman who has been abused...march that was held entitled "Women Against Abuse", where people from all walks...see people come together for women against abuse," she said. Article copyright...

Women Who Suffered Child Abuse Spend More on Health Care.

AScribe Medicine News Service;  February 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Middle-aged women who suffered physical or sexual abuse as children spend...more than 3,000 women. Even decades after the abuse ended, these women used health services...found that before. Women who had no history of abuse spent an average...