Javea Grapevine Issue 173 - 2015 | Page 27

Jávea Grapevine No.173 2015|

Violence against women
affects the whole family.
Children exposed to intimate partner
violence in the home are more likely to:
Be abused themselves
Not receive healthcare
Have behavioural, emotional, and schooling problems

As adolescents, they are more likely to:

Violence against women

is preventable.

Violence against women is rooted in gender inequality.
Programs to reduce intimate partner violence
need to address risk factors at multiple levels.
Level

Risk Factor

Individual

History of violence
in childhood

Parenting programmes to
prevent child maltreatment

Relationship

Male control
over women

Programmes targeting men
and boys to promote
gender equitable attitudes
and behaviours

Unequal gender
norms that
condone violence
against women

Programmes promoting
equitable gender norms through
media, community mobilization,
schools, and religious institutions

Male partner's
harmful use of
alcohol

Reducing availability and
access to alcohol

Women's lack of
access to
education and
employment

Laws, policies, and
programmes that promote
women's access to
employment and microcredit,
girls' access to education, and
that ban or prohibit violence
against women

Use alcohol and drugs in harmful ways
Smoke
Have unsafe sex

Adults who grew up with violence
in the home are more likely to
perpetrate or experience intimate
partner violence.

Everyone has a role
to play in addressing
violence against women.
To prevent and respond to violence against women,
multiple sectors of society must work together.

Intervention

Community

Societal

Stop violence against women.
A role for the health sector:

Provide

comprehensive health services
for survivors

Collect data

about prevalence, risk factors,
and health consequences

Inform policies

to address violence against women

Prevent violence

by fostering and informing
prevention programmes

Web Resources
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/
http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/violence/en/

The health sector plays a key role in preventing
and responding to violence against women.

WHO (2010). Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women: Taking action
and generating evidence.
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/activities/intimate/en/
WHO (2013). Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women.
WHO clinical and policy guidelines.

Design by

WHO Resources
WHO (2005). Multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women.
http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/

www.communicatehealth.com

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