Empowerment, partner's behaviours and intimate partner physical violence among married women in Uganda.

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Published in BMC Public Health on December 01, 2013

Authors

Betty Kwagala1, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Patricia Ndugga, Allen Kabagenyi

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. swandera@gmail.com.

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