BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence is a problem in women who are refugees but the relationship of this violence to physical health has not been studied well. AIM To identify significant associations between physical health problems and partner violence by type in refugee women. METHODS For this cross-sectional study, data were collected from a convenience sample of 238 women attending hea...

Despite recognition that traditional Mexican gender norms can contribute to the twin epidemics of violence against women and HIV, there is an absence of published literature on experiences of violence among Mexican women with HIV. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 77 HIV-infected women from 21 of Mexico's 32 states to describe experiences of violence before and after HIV-diagnosis. We ...

Background: Each year, violence is perpetrated against 1.5 million US women, of whom 324,000 are pregnant. Violence in pregnancy has adverse effects on maternal and infant health. Although there are 4.7 million childbearing age women with disabilities, and their pregnancy rates are growing, there is very little information about violence against pregnant women with disabilities. Objectives/hypo...

Domestic violence, a malady cross cutting all strata of the society, affects mostly women, but not exclusively, and affects their health and well being, particularly in the area of reproductive health. Pregnant women undergoing violence are at a higher risk of experiencing many negative health outcomes affecting the mother-to-be and the unborn baby. They include miscarriages, unwanted pregnanci...

Diabetes is a national health problem, and the burden of the disease and its consequences particularly affect Hispanics. While social determinants of health models have improved our conceptualization of how certain contexts and environments influence an individual's ability to make healthy choices, a structural violence framework transcends traditional uni-dimensional analysis. Thus, a structur...

This study uses a risk and resilience framework for conceptualizing the long-term effects of childhood family violence on mental health. It examines sense of community as a protective factor against adult psychological distress associated with experiences of physical or psychological violence in childhood from parents. Regression models are estimated using data from the 1995 National Survey of ...

The WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women is a research initiative that has produced data on intimate-partner violence comparable across the 10 countries in this report: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Carried out in adherence to strict ethical, safety and qua...

Abstract Based on the National Health Survey, this article aimed to verify association between sociodemographic, health, and behavioral characteristics occurrence of psychological, physical, sexual violence in Brazil 2019. Logistic models were adjusted four outcomes: Having experienced or last 12 months; having psychological physical months. There was a prevalence 17.36% violence, 4.15% 0.76% v...

introduction: ramadan fasting is prescribed by holy quran for every able-bodied, adult muslim and is considered an essential practice for all muslims including pregnant women. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of ramadan fasting on neonatal anthropometric measurements during the third trimester of pregnancy. method: this is a cross-sectional study, carried out on 300 delivering ...