Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 119-125 , March 2009

Contemporary Homicide Risks among Women of Reproductive Age

  • Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing & Health Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, School of Nursing & Health Studies, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248153, Coral Gables, FL 33124-3850.
  • ,
  • Barbara Luke, ScD, MPH, RN, RD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Received 4 October 2007 ,Revised 3 December 2008 ,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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PII: S1049-3867(09)00005-X

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.01.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 119-125 , March 2009