Gender violence and mistreatment (I). Global aspects from the health care perspective
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Gender violence (GV) has historically been characterized by its invisibility, for remaining oc-cult behind the walls of homes where it was pro-duced so that invisible became inexistent, a cir-cumstance which completely conditioned institutional actions and especially the healthcare administration where the action was also directed to the visible part of the aggression, leaving the health problems caused by living under GV within the inexistence of the invisibility. The social changes of the last years and the consequent critical positioning against GV has led to an increase in the reports of cases of GV. In-deed, from 2002 to October 2007, 326,247 re-ports were made with an increase of 43.5 % (until the end of 2006) (Figure 1) and the subsequent demand for greater direct care to those inflicted, especially from the area of healthcare. In these circumstances, the role of emergency physicians and the remaining healthcare profes-sionals should be centred on assistance to the ag-gressions and the alterations caused by violence as well as the detection of occult cases. To achieve this objective it is necessary to know the character-
Author: Miguel Lorente Acosta
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W69915728