Interpersonal violence in three Caribbean countries: Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago Violencia interpersonal en tres países del Caribe: Barbados, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago

• Main Authors: Elsie Le Franc, Maureen Samms-Vaughan, Ian Hambleton, Kristin Fox, Dennis Brown
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Violencia sexual; violencia doméstica; agresión; conducta del adolescente; adultos; Barbados; Jamaica; Trinidad y Tobago; Sexual violence; domestic violence; aggression; adolescent; adult; Trinidad and Tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/029cd25f7d164411a45b09ae687b55af

OBJECTIVES: This article reports the prevalence of two types of interpersonal violence (IPV) (sexual and physical) and one type of aggression (psychological) in three low-to-middle-income Caribbean countries. It examines IPV among adolescents and young adults as both victims and perpetrators. METHOD...