Citation

Picardo CW, Burton S, Naponick J. J. La. State Med. Soc. 2010; 162(5): 282, 284-8, 290.

Affiliation

Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Louisiana State Medical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21141260

Abstract

Physical abuse was not uncommon among displaced women following Hurricane Katrina. Increasing and new abuse were the most commonly reported experiences. Violence against women should not be overlooked as a continued, and perhaps escalating, occurrence requiring attention following displacement after disasters of such magnitude as Hurricane Katrina.

Language: en