Dilemmas and opportunities for an appropriate health-service response to violence against women.
This article is an overview of the role of health services in secondary and tertiary prevention of intimate partner violence. In it, I review the evidence, which comes mostly from developed countries, on the effectiveness and limitations of in-service training programmes to identify and care for women who have experienced intimate partner violence. I also discuss recent initiatives in developing countries to integrate concerns on gender-based violence into health-care services at different levels, some of the dilemmas and challenges posed by the current approaches to intimate partner violence, and recommendations for future interventions.
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Department of Gender and Women's Health, WHO, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. garciamorenoc@who.int
D018585:Battered Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D016387:Women's Health; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014933:Women's Rights / Q000592:standards