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The Medicalization of Violence Against Women


The Role of Psychiatric Examination in the Forensic Medical ...

In cases of partner violence against women, in which physical injuries are often categorized as simple injuries, the significant prevalence of ...

Intimate Partner Violence | ACOG

The medical community can play a vital role in identifying women who are experiencing IPV and halting the cycle of abuse through screening, offering ongoing ...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Commemorates the 30th ...

The law transformed the nation's response to gender-based violence by recognizing that domestic violence and sexual assault are not a private ...

Full report of the prevalence, incidence, and consequences of ...

Few empirical data exist on the relationship between different forms of violence against women, such as victimization in childhood and subsequent victimization.

A National Protocol for Intimate Partner Violence Medical Forensic ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) acknowledges the many experts who developed this protocol through their collaborative ...

United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based ...

Gender-based violence is a human rights abuse, a form of discrimination, a manifestation of unequal power, and a public health crisis in the United States and ...

Workplace violence against female healthcare workers - BMJ Open

WPV prevalence is high among female HCWs, warranting a multilevel intervention approach to address and mitigate its impact.

Domestic violence against women: Recognize patterns, seek help

Domestic violence — also called intimate partner violence — occurs between people in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence can take many ...

Domestic Violence Prevention Working Group Page

Studies have shown that domestic violence personally impacts 1 in 4 physicians, with a greater predominance of women as compared with men. Events. Untold ...

The role of primary healthcare physicians in violence against ...

Violence against women (VAW) is one of the major public health problems and human rights violations. It forms in many ways, such as intimate ...

Paradox of Legibility: Domestic Violence and Institutional ...

Intersectional feminists have long insisted on a multilevel analysis of violence against women that attends to violence across political, ...

Using Text as Data to Reveal Changing Organizational Perspectives ...

Public understanding of violence against women, and appropriate solutions to tackling gender-based violence, have changed enormously over the past 50 years.

Violence against women: Strengthening the health system response

One in three women throughout the world will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or sexual violence by a non-partner.

References | Understanding Violence Against Women

1995 Domestic violence against women: Incidence and prevalence in an emergency room population. Journal of the American Medical Association 273(22):1763-1767.

PAST AND PRESENT OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND VIOLENCE ...

Gender inequality seen in communities where patriarchal structure prevails has caused women to be deprived of their rights. The exclusion of women who have been ...

Violence against women: Causes and consequences

Consequences of sexualised violence can include infertility and sexually transmitted diseases, trauma, depression, anxiety and panic attacks. One of the reasons ...

What is female genital mutilation? - Unicef

Approximately one in four FGM survivors – some 52 million women and girls worldwide – were subjected to FGM at the hands of health personnel. Medicalization not ...

Gender, Disability Rights and Violence Against Medical Bodies

In order to recognise and contest lawful medical violence as violence against women, mainstream feminist scholars and activists might consider.

Obstetric violence – May 28

Obstetric violence occurs at an intersection between Institutional violence and violence against women during pregnancy, childbirth and the post ...

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) | HUD.gov / U.S. Department ...

Course One is a high-level overview that will give participants the opportunity to learn about VAWA housing protections for survivors of domestic violence, ...