Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Violence against women: the health sector responds
  1. C Vives

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Edited by M Velzeboer, M Ellsberg, C Clavel Arcas, et al. Washington, DC: PAHO, 2003, US $22.00, pp 131. ISBN 92-751229-2

    This book is based on the formulation, development, and implementation of the PAHO’s integrated strategy to cope with gender based violence (GBV). The convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW,1 1979) and the inter-American convention on the prevention, punishment and eradication of violence2 were the principal promoters of a political framework for action against GBV in all states. However, as the authors say, the health sector had traditionally ignored these calls. For this reason, the PAHO with the program for appropiate technology in health (PATH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published this book to show the results of the assessments developed since 1993 to promote changes not only in service …

    View Full Text

    Linked Articles