Rev. Saúde Pública vol.51

A study done in two Brazilian regions as part of the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women, 19 identiied that having up to eight years

Intimate partner violence (IPV), also known as domestic violence, is defined by the World Health Organization 1 as ‘‘any behavior within an intimate relationship that causes

OBJECTIVE: To validate the instrument of the World Health Organization Violence Against Women (WHO VAW) study on psychological, physical and sexual violence against women

The study investigated the presence of gender violence through the Brazilian version of the World Health Organization Violence against Women instrument, and suicidal ideation

Regarding the comparison of intimate partner violence and their perceptions, when considering the violence sufered by women and the one perpetrated by the men interviewed

Objective: his study was conducted to understand the experiences of intimate partner violence among women from Portuguese-speaking countries living in the Greater Toronto

What occupational violence in the health sector is concerned, in view of the large number of workers hit by this phenomenon all over the world, the International Labour

Descriptors: Violence; Domestic Violence; Battered Women; Family Health; Professional