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Gender-based violence against men, a southeast Asian qualitative study [PDF]
SAGE Open MedicineBackground and objectives: Gender-based violence is a major public health concern. Although, in many instances, violence against women and girls encompasses the entire spectrum of gender-based violence in the public eye, violence against men is a very ...
Sashini Jayaratne, Kumudu Wijewardena
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Preventing modern slavery is of global interest, but evidence on interventions remains weak. This paper presents findings from a 5-year theory-based evaluation of an empowerment and knowledge-building intervention to prevent the exploitation of South ...
Cathy Zimmerman +5 more
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VIDA: A simulation model of domestic VIolence in times of social DistAncing [PDF]
, 2021 Violence against women occurs predominantly in the family and domestic context. The COVID-19 pandemic led Brazil to recommend and, at times, impose social distancing, with the partial closure of economic activities, schools, and restrictions on events and public services.
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The role of mental health in primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 In this short communication, we assert that mental health has a crucial role in the primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). However, we found that most research and practice to date has focused on the role of mental health post ...
Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health concern. While community-level gender norms and attitudes to IPV are recognised drivers of IPV risk, there is little evidence on how interventions might tackle these ...
Tanya Abramsky +7 more
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Association between intimate partner violence and nutritional status of married Nepalese women
Global Health Research and Policy, 2022 Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is physical, sexual, or psychological harm perpetrated by a spouse or an intimate partner. Its detrimental effects on women’s physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health are well-documented.
Arun Chaudhary +2 more
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Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder [PDF]
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5,
CSCW1, Article 189, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2021 This paper reports an interview study about how consent to sexual activity is computer-mediated. The study's context of online dating is chosen due to the prevalence of sexual violence, or nonconsensual sexual activity, that is associated with dating app-use.
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BMC Psychiatry, 2017 Background Secondary distress including emotional distress, vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) due to exposure to primary trauma victims have been described in helping professionals and in violence researchers.
Heidi Grundlingh +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The extremely high prevalence of sexual violence victimisation reported among female students in South African public higher education demands urgent action to develop, rigorously evaluate and scale effective prevention interventions.
Mercilene Tanyaradzwa Machisa +7 more
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Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2022 IntroductionAge-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) is associated with HIV, unintended pregnancy, school dropout and violence, yet few interventions have successfully prevented it, and none have set ADTS prevention as their primary outcome.
Marjorie Pichon +9 more
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