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Descriptor English: Domestic Violence
Descriptor Spanish: Violencia Doméstica
Descriptor violencia doméstica
Entry term(s) violencia familiar
Scope note: Abuso físico, verbal o de otro tipo, deliberado, y a menudo repetitivo, ejercida por uno o más miembros de la familia contra otros miembros del hogar familiar.
Descriptor Portuguese: Violência Doméstica
Descriptor French: Violence domestique
Entry term(s): Family Violence
Violence, Domestic
Violence, Family
Tree number(s): I01.198.240.856.350
I01.880.735.900.350
SP2.770.750.103.782
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017579
Scope note: Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another.Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. (From: https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/factsheets/ojpfs_domesticviolence.html).
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Violence (1968-1993)
specific type of abuse (1966-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Related: Sex Offenses MeSH
DeCS ID: 31499
Unique ID: D017579
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/12/28
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
Domestic Violence - Preferred
Concept UI M0026642
Scope note Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another.Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. (From: https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/factsheets/ojpfs_domesticviolence.html).
Preferred term Domestic Violence
Entry term(s) Violence, Domestic
Family Violence - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0026641
Preferred term Family Violence
Entry term(s) Violence, Family



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