COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence

N van Gelder¹, A Peterman^{2

3}, A Potts⁴, M O'Donnell⁵, K Thompson⁶, N Shah⁷, S Oertelt-Prigione^{1

8}; Gender and COVID-19 working group

Affiliations

¹ Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences (RIHS), Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 21 (route 117), 6500HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.
³ Social and Economic Policy Unit, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
⁴ The Global Women's Institute at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁵ Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Independent Consultant, NJ, USA.
⁷ United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ Institute of Legal and Forensic Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

N van Gelder et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 11:21:100348.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100348. eCollection 2020 Apr.

N van Gelder¹, A Peterman^{2

3}, A Potts⁴, M O'Donnell⁵, K Thompson⁶, N Shah⁷, S Oertelt-Prigione^{1

8}; Gender and COVID-19 working group

¹ Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences (RIHS), Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 21 (route 117), 6500HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.
³ Social and Economic Policy Unit, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
⁴ The Global Women's Institute at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁵ Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Independent Consultant, NJ, USA.
⁷ United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ Institute of Legal and Forensic Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

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