WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women: summary report

Initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women's responses

Overview

The WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women is a landmark research project, both in its scope and in how it was carried out. For the results presented in this report, specially trained teams collected data from over 24 000 women from 15 sites in 10 countries representing diverse cultural settings: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania.

WHO Team
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH)
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
36
Reference numbers
ISBN: 92 4 159351 2
Copyright
World Health Organization, 2005 - All rights reserved.