Responding to gender-based violence in disasters.

Responding to gender-based violence in disasters: grappling with research methods to clear the way for planning.

In this issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Anastario et al1 bring to light a vulnerability that is often hidden. Using sequential cross-sectional randomized surveys of trailer parks in Mississippi that were home to individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Anastario et al documented a quantitative increase in gender-based violence (GBV) among a population living in pro...

Preventing Gender-based Violence Post Disasters

Gender, trauma type, and PTSD prevalence: a re-analysis of 18 nordic convenience samples

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to examine a possible trauma type related variance in the gender difference of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence. METHODS An analysis was conducted on 18 convenience sample studies including data from a total of 5220 participants. The studies all applied the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire - part IV to assess PTSD. Cohen's d was use...

The Prevention and Management of HIV and Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Responding to the Needs of Survivors and Those-at-risk

The human rights framework holds that all people, including women and people living with HIV, have the right to live without stigma, discrimination, and violence, and with self-determination. In recent years, global health advocates have used this framework to bolster support for issues of sexual and gender-based violence and associated health consequences. At the U.N. Summit on Peacekeeping on...

Community response to disaster: the role of the workplace.

Disasters, natural and man-made, have a considerable impact on communities. Most recently, disasters stemming from terrorist attacks have become a leading cause of concern. The importance of work in the lives of employees, coupled with the vulnerability of workplaces as potential targets of terrorist attacks, suggests that workplaces can and should play a role in planning for, and responding to...