This article discusses domestic violence which affects both sexes and their families, and examines the role of health professionals in identifying and dealing with such cases.

The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication--a South African multi-media health promotion project--together with the National Network on Violence Against Women, formulated an intervention to address domestic violence. Recognising that behavioural change interventions aimed solely at individuals have limited impact, the intervention was designed to impact at multiple mutuall...

CONTEXT Although there is increasing recognition of the global scope of domestic violence and the potential reproductive health consequences of violence, little is known about the relationship between physical and sexual domestic violence and gynecologic morbidity in developing country settings. METHODS A sample of 3,642 couples from northern India was created by matching husbands and wives w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the long-term impact of antenatal domestic violence on maternal psychiatric morbidity and child behaviour. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Avon, UK. POPULATION OR SAMPLE A birth cohort of 13,617 children and mother dyads were followed to 42 months of age. METHODS Experiences of domestic violence and depressive symptoms were gathered at 18 weeks of gestation and up ...

Domestic violence, when conducted against women, is a type of gender-based violence that negatively impacts a woman's physical and psychological health, causing insecurity, lack of safety, and loss of health and self-worth. Domestic violence is an important consideration for sexual, reproductive, and child health, as it can affect contraceptive behaviors of couples as well as levels of infant m...

BACKGROUND Domestic and sexual violence are significant public health problems but little is known about the extent to which men and women with severe mental illness (SMI) are at risk compared with the general population. We aimed to compare the prevalence and impact of violence against SMI patients and the general population. METHOD Three hundred and three randomly recruited psychiatric pati...