Physical, emotional and sexual adolescent abuse victimisation in South Africa: prevalence, incidence, perpetrators and locations.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on March 09, 2016

Authors

Franziska Meinck1, Lucie D Cluver2, Mark E Boyes3, Heidi Loening-Voysey4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Policy & Intervention, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2: Department of Social Policy & Intervention, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
3: Department of Social Policy & Intervention, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
4: UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, Florence, Italy.

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