Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 7 , Pages 502-505 , July 2009

Sexual victimization as a risk factor for residential mobility: A case–control study using the Danish registry system

  • A. Elklit

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • M. Shevlin

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Research Institute, University of Ulster at Magee, Northern Ireland

Received 25 November 2008 ,Revised 18 May 2009 ,Accepted 9 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.005

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