Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 109-118 , March 2009

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Police-Reported Intimate Partner Violence and Risk of Hospitalization among Women

  • Sherry Lipsky, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations (CHAMMP), University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Sherry Lipsky, PhD, MPH, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations (CHAMMP), University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center, Box 359911, 325 Ninth Ave Seattle, WA 98104-2499; Phone: 206-744-1763 Fax: 206-744-3236.
    • ,
  • Raul Caetano, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, Dallas Regional Campus, Dallas, Texas
    • ,
  • Peter Roy-Byrne, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Medical Center; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and CHAMMP, University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

Received 29 July 2008 ,Revised 26 September 2008 ,Accepted 28 September 2008.

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 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism or the National Institutes of Health.

 Supported by a Grant Number K01AA015187 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the University of Washington, Seattle.

PII: S1049-3867(08)00143-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.09.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 109-118 , March 2009

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