Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Global Health-Priority Concern
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 (31 May 2021)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intimate partner violence; survivors’ recovery; victims’ participation with prosecution; women’s psychological health; gender
Interests: violence against women; survivors’ recovery; victims’ participation with prosecution; women’s psychological health; gender
Interests: sexual violence; domestic violence; health outcomes; mixed-methods; health services research; interventions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) still poses a global health problem of epidemic proportions, affecting 30% of women worldwide. Despite social, political, and research progress over the half-past century, many questions remain regarding how abuse affects women’s health over the long-term. Further research is needed to deepen understanding of survivors’ recovery processes, including gendered syndemics of IPV; the effects of stigmatisation during and in the aftermath of abuse; poly-victimisation experiences, and the role of factors such as co-morbidity, pregnancy, age, poverty and opportunity, gender and sexual identities, and ethnicity in recovery; the effects of COVID-19; efficacy of prevention programmes and the medium- and long-term impacts of different therapeutic approaches; the effects of informal support and formal service provision (e.g., primary care, social services, police, justice systems), as well as issues related to secondary victimisation and re-traumatisation. There is also an absence of research representing women’s lives as intersectional, demonstrating how culture, race and ethnicity, social status and class, religion, language, nationality, as well as gender are all significant factors in the analysis of IPVAW and health.
This Special Issue aims to complement the existing literature concerning the effect of IPV on women’s mental, psychosocial, and physical health as well as identify how intrapersonal and structural factors affect survivors’ health risks and wellbeing. Thus, we welcome both quantitative and qualitative studies that make a significant contribution to research and practical implications for the health of survivors of IPV who identify as women. We encourage the submission from all geographical areas to increase cultural diversity knowledge of health-related issues of IPVAW.
Dr. María García-Jiménez
Prof. Dr. Mª Jesús Cala Carrillo
Prof. Dr. Lorna J. O’Doherty
Prof. Dr. Dana C. Jack
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intimate partner violence
- gender
- women’s health
- overcoming abuse
- sexual abuse
- intervention and prevention
- health providers
- cultural diversity
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