SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sandwich Generation, Elder Abuse, Michael Kimmel
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Patriarchal society makes women more vulnerable to domestic violence through power imbalance, Domestic violence against women: systematic review of prevalence. To systematically review the worldwide evidence on the prevalence of domestic violence against women, to evaluate the quality of studies, and to account for variation in prevalence between studies, using consistent definitions and explicit, rigorous methods. Systematic review of prevalence studies on domestic violence against women. Literature searches of 6 databases were undertaken for the period. Medline, embase, cinahl, assia, isi, and international bibliography of the social sciences were searched, supplemented by hand searching of the reference lists from studies retrieved and specialized interdisciplinary journals on violence. Studies were scored on eight predetermined criteria and stratified according to the total quality score. The majority of the sudies were conducted in north america (41%), followed by europe (20%). 56% of studies were population-based, and 17% were carried out either in primary or community health care settings.
