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Science 25 November 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5752, pp. 1282 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121400
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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Violence Against Women

Claudia Garcia-Moreno,1* Lori Heise,2 Henrica A. F. M. Jansen,1 Mary Ellsberg,2 Charlotte Watts3

This Policy Forum presents new global evidence on the extent of domestic violence against women. Data from more than 24,000 women in 10 geographically and culturally varied countries involved in the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence highlights that violence is widespread and illustrates the degree to which levels vary between settings. It argues that violence against women is a complex social problem with far-reaching health consequences and one that urgently needs to be addressed.

1Department of Gender, Women and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2PATH, Washington, DC; 3London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. The authors write on behalf of the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: garciamorenoc{at}who.int

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