Gender, Violence, and Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 2678
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gender based violence; intimate partner violence; violence against women and girls; femicide; rape; health impact; mental health impact; HIV; sexual and reproductive health
Interests: gender inequalities; violence against women; drivers/risk factors; prevention interventions; intimate partner violence; femicide; mental health impact; HIV; rape services
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) have a profound and diverse impact on population health and access to healthcare and treatment that women receive within health services. Studies on the burden of disease have summarized the available evidence and quantified the impact, in terms of years of life lost and disability-adjusted life years, in turn demonstrating the substantial importance of gender inequality and violence on health, particularly of young women, with enduring impact. In addition to physical injuries from violence, gender inequalities and violence adversely affect mental health, maternal health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, non-communicable diseases and risk factors, communicable diseases (especially HIV and sexually transmitted infections), as well as the health and well-being of children of mothers exposed to GBV.
This Special Issue will focus on improving understanding around the interrelationship of gender, violence, and health, as experienced by women in low- and middle-income countries. We invite contributions which expand our knowledge of, and provide new insights into, the intersections of gender, violence, and health. We particularly welcome qualitative research articles, papers that draw inferences based on longitudinal data, multi-country study analyses, papers that advance understanding of the intersections among vulnerable and often-marginalized groups, and papers that combine clinical/biological and epidemiological data.
Prof. Dr. Naeemah Abrahams
Prof. Dr. Rachel Jewkes
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- gender-based violence
- violence against women
- sexual violence
- rape
- health impact
- mental health
- HIV
- sexual and reproductive health
- health system responses
- treatment of women
