Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 252-261 , September 2006

Long-term costs of intimate partner violence in a sample of female HMO enrollees

  • Alison Snow Jones, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dr. Alison Snow Jones, Assistant Professor, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157.
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  • Jacqueline Dienemann, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Janet Schollenberger, MHS

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Joan Kub, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Patricia O’Campo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Andrea Carlson Gielen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Received 2 December 2005 ,Revised 15 June 2006 ,Accepted 16 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.06.007

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 252-261 , September 2006

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