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Brazilian Favela Women: How Your Standard Solutions for Technology Abuse Might Actually Harm Them [PDF]
Brazil is home to over 200M people, the majority of which have access to the Internet. Over 11M Brazilians live in favelas, or informal settlements with no outside government regulation, often ruled by narcos or militias. Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in these communities are made extra vulnerable not only by lack of access to resources ...
arxiv
Outcome coding choice in randomized trials of programs to reduce violence [PDF]
Over the last decade, the number of randomized trials of programs to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) has grown precipitously. However, most trials continue to measure and code violence using standards originally designed for global prevalence surveys.
arxiv
Background: Intimate partner violence is an important public health and human rights issue. Previous studies have considered intimate partner violence in pregnancy mainly among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics thereby missing out a few who may ...
Godwin O. Akaba, Habiba I. Abdullahi
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Adverse Health Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence against Older Women: Mining Electronic Health Records [PDF]
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is often studied as a problem that predominantly affects younger women. However, studies show that older women are also frequently victims of abuse even though the physical effects of abuse are harder to detect. In this study, we mined the electronic health records (EHR) available through IBM Explorys to identify health ...
arxiv
1. Megan H. Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE* 1. *Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Director, Primary Care Fellowship Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Describe
M. Bair-Merritt
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This research sought to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence, characterize attitudes toward violence, analyse relations between perceptions of intimate partner acceptance-rejection and practices of violence and examine relations between ...
Sofia Neves+3 more
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Are Smart Home Devices Abandoning IPV Victims? [PDF]
Smart home devices have brought us many benefits such as advanced security, convenience, and entertainment. However, these devices also have made unintended consequences like giving ultimate power for devices' owners over their intimate partners in the same household which might lead to tech-facilitated domestic abuse (tech-abuse) as recent research ...
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Estimating the costs of gender-based violence in the European Union [PDF]
The purpose of the study is to identify and recommend appropriate methodologies to measure the cost of gender-based and intimate partner violence in EU-28 Member States.
European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE)+2 more
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Background Intimate partner violence against women is a behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm to the victim. It is well recognized as a gross violation of human rights and affects the health of women,
Girma Garedew Goyomsa+3 more
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Quantifying disparities in intimate partner violence: a machine learning method to correct for underreporting [PDF]
Estimating the prevalence of a medical condition, or the proportion of the population in which it occurs, is a fundamental problem in healthcare and public health. Accurate estimates of the relative prevalence across groups -- capturing, for example, that a condition affects women more frequently than men -- facilitate effective and equitable health ...
arxiv