HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE AGAINST ADOLESCENTS IN NIGERIA

REDUCING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE 1 Reducing Gender-Based Violence Laurie Ball Cooper* Tahirih Justice Center Skadden Fellow

Perceptions of gender-based violence among South African youth: implications for health promotion interventions.

Gender-based violence is a widespread problem in South Africa. Past structural inequities have created a climate conducive to violence against women. As an initial step toward developing a health promotion program, we conducted exploratory formative research to examine the barriers that affect the health and well-being of youth. Fourteen focus groups (nine with girls and five with boys) were co...

[Violence against adolescents: differentials by gender and living conditions strata].

An ecological study was conducted in order to analyze differences in mortality rates among adolescents by gender and living conditions strata in Recife from1998 to 2004. The average mortality coefficient for violence during this period was calculated by gender for the city and by living conditions strata. This analysis demonstrated a higher risk of death by violence for male adolescents in Stra...

Strategies for Iranian Women Empowerment in Reducing Gender Inequality Using Focus Group Discussion

 Background and purpose: Gender inequality can cause waste of human resources, reduce women's social participation, influence women's physical and mental health, cause domestic violence and delay the development of a country. Hence, strategies are required to identify and reduce gender inequality in a society. The purpose of this study was to explain strategies to reduce gender inequality. Mat...

Violence against adolescents: an analysis based on the categories gender and generation.

Exploratory and descriptive study based on quantitative and qualitative methods that analyze the phenomenon of violence against adolescents based on gender and generational categories. The data source was reports of violence from the Curitiba Protection Network from 2010 to 2012 and semi-structured interviews with 16 sheltered adolescents. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS software ver...