Health care professionals, rurality, and intimate femicide
Study
North America
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Battered women in rural areas are often overlooked or ignored in research (Websdale, 1995; Websdale & Johnson, 1998; Edwards, 2015) despite victimization experiences in rural settings being very different and affected by several key issues such as geography, isolation, subcultural attitudes surrounding gender, enforcement officers, economic disadvantages, education level, and availability of services (Dudgeon & Evanson, 2014; Neill & Hammatt, 2015).