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Domestic Violence Damages Victims’ Mental Health

Domestic Violence Damages Victims’ Mental Health

Domestic violence, sometimes called intimate partner violence, is a public health problem: Nearly one in four women has been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, and one in nine men has experienced the same.  The short-term physical effects...

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Hospitals Are Committed to Making PA Violence-Free

Hospitals Are Committed to Making PA Violence-Free

When you think of the future, what do you hope the world will look like? Cleaner? Healthier? Kinder? More accepting? Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems are hoping it will be violence-free. Taking part in the American Hospital Association’s coalition to combat...

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