Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women : WHO clinical and policy guidelines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

World Health Organization, issuing body.

Series:

Nonserial Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Rape.

Women--Services for.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Health Organization, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A health-care provider is likely to be the first professional contact for survivors of intimate partner violence or sexual assault. Evidence suggests that women who have been subjected to violence seek health care more often than non-abused women, even if they do not disclose the associated violence. They also identify health-care providers as the professionals they would most trust with disclosure of abuse. These guidelines are an unprecedented effort to equip healthcare providers with evidence-based guidance as to how to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. They also provide advice for policy makers, encouraging better coordination and funding of services, and greater attention to responding to sexual violence and partner violence within training programmes for health care providers. The guidelines are based on systematic reviews of the evidence, and cover: 1. identification and clinical care for intimate partner violence 2. clinical care for sexual assault 3. training relating to intimate partner violence and sexual assault against women 4. policy and programmatic approaches to delivering services 5. mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence. The guidelines aim to raise awareness of violence against women among health-care providers and policy-makers, so that they better understand the need for an appropriate health-sector response. They provide standards that can form the basis for national guidelines, and for integrating these issues into health-care provider education.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and glossary

Abbreviations

Glossary

Executive summary

Introduction

Target audience

Guideline development methods

Summary of recommendations

Background

Scope of the guidelines

Human rights underpinning of the guidelines

Methods

Identifying, appraising and synthesizing the available evidence

Recruitment of the Guideline Development Group

Declaration of interest by Guideline Development Group members and peer reviewers

Decision-making during the Guideline Development Group meeting

Document preparation and peer review

Evidence and recommendations

1. Women-centred care

2. Identification and care for survivors of intimate partner violence

3. Clinical care for survivors of sexual assault

4. Training of health-care providers on intimate partner violence and sexual violence

5. Health-care policy and provision

6. Mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence

Research implications

Research gaps based on guideline questions

Identification of intimate partner violence

Care for survivors of intimate partner violence

Clinical care for survivors of sexual assault

Training of health-care providers on intimate partner violence and sexual violence

Health-care policy and provision

Mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence

Dissemination and implementation of the guidelines

Guideline dissemination

Guideline implementation

Monitoring and evaluating implementation of the guidelines

Updating of the guidelines

Annexes

I. References

II. External experts and WHO staff involved in the preparation of the guidelines

Guideline Development Group members

WHO Secretariat

Peer reviewers

Declaration of interests of the Guideline Development Group.

III. List of full reviews and evidence tables.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-4-069179-0

OCLC:

852481027