Studies have found high rates of help seeking among domestic violence victims. However, little research has investigated the help-seeking patterns of women who use violence (many of whom are also abused). Understanding the resources utilized by women who are violent toward their partners may aid in designing interventions that will reduce the women's violence, as well as reduce the victimizatio...

background: violence against women is one of the social difficulties all over the world that has negative effects on other health prioritization such as mothers health، family planning and mental health. the purpose of this study was determining of the prevalence rate of spouse abuse and some affecting factors among women in arak city. methods: an analytical and cross-sectional research was car...

Health systems have a crucial role in a multisector response to violence against women. Some countries have guidelines or protocols articulating this role and health-care workers are trained in some settings, but generally system development and implementation have been slow to progress. Substantial system and behavioural barriers exist, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. Vio...

Violence on women has been present in our society since times immemorial. The ethics, the values, the morals, the culture of the society has been framed in such a way or we can say structured in such a way so as to promote exploitation of this segment which is in reality the root of the society. The concept of STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE was introduced by Johan Galtung in 1969. It refers to a form of v...

the purpose of this research is to study domestic violence against women in the city of tehran, the results of which may be generalized to all cities in iran due to tehran’s population diversity. having defined certain terms and theories, the writers have presented hypotheses, which have been tested in a field study on a statistical universe of 100 housewives, selected randomly from various are...

Around the world, there are growing efforts to involve boys and men in the prevention of violence against women: as participants in education programs, as targets of social marketing campaigns, as policy makers and gatekeepers, and as activists and advocates. Efforts to prevent violence against girls and women now increasingly take as given that they must engage men. While there are dangers in ...

This short article details the initial findings from a 3-month conversation between 21 male activists who work to prevent violence against women. Using Participatory Action Research methodology, this research project investigates what men who do this work would like to learn from other men who do this work. To date, no research has been done that examines what it is that motivates and sustains ...

■ Gender relations (e.g., decision making and control of resources within the family). Until recently, violence against women has been virtually invisible in most countries , either because women are ashamed Cross-sectional surveys provide an image of a situation at a specific time. When applied to the study of violence, cross-sectional surveys are useful for providing information about the pro...