@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between socio-economic inequalities, intimate partner violence and economic abuse: A national study of women in the Philippines",
journal="Global public health",
year="2014",
author="Antai, Diddy and Antai, Justina and Anthony, David Steven",
volume="9",
number="7",
pages="808-826",
abstract="Economic abuse against women has for too long remained a relatively 'unseen' part of interpersonal violence, in spite of intimate partner violence (IPV) being a public health problem. Most studies on economic abuse derive especially from the USA and amongst women in shelters, and their findings are not easily generalisable to low-middle-income countries. Socio-economic inequalities render women vulnerable to control and risk of abuse. We investigated the role of socio-economic inequalities in the association between IPV and economic abuse. Logistic regression analyses were performed on cross-sectional data from a nationally representative sample of 8478 women aged 15-49 years in the 2008 Philippines Demographic and Health Surveys. <br><br>RESULTS indicated strong positive associations between both physical IPV and emotional IPV and all four forms of economic abuse. Measures of socio-economic inequalities and other covariates such as no education, primary education, unemployment and justifying wife beating were also statistically significant. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest the increased need for health care practitioners to include economic abuse during the assessment of and response to IPV, the implementation of a multidimensional approach to providing tangible support and women-centred responses in reported cases of economic abuse, as well as measures that enhance socio-economic equality and increase economic opportunities for women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1744-1692",
doi="10.1080/17441692.2014.917195",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.917195"
}