BACKGROUND In pregnancy, violence can have serious health consequences that could affect both mother and child. In Ghana there are limited data on this subject. We sought to assess the relationship between physical violence during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes (early pregnancy loss, perinatal mortality and neonatal mortality) in Ghana. METHOD The 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey da...

This qualitative study aimed at analyzing the participation of the local health managers in the assistance provided to the adolescent victim of violence in the city of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil. Specific objectives of this study were: to identify how the local health managers perceive violence and its repercussions in adolescence; to identify the public healthcare policies directed to the adolesce...

The purpose of this study is first to find out how protect legal protection for children who are victims domestic violence. Second, the judicial mechanism research method normative juridical, with a descriptive approach, namely results obtained from expected provide an overview as his violence, provided, including: providing assistance; confidentiality victim's identity; arrest offender prelimi...

Intimate partner violence directed towards females by male partners is a common significant global public health problem. Most victims of physical aggression such as women and children are subjected to multiple acts of violence over extended periods of time, suffering from more than one type of abuse, for example physical which is more symbolic and evidenced by scars. The purpose of this study ...

Abstract This essay debates health inequalities by analyzing obstetric violence directed at Black women. We assume that institutional racism is an important interpretive key to understanding the dynamics of racial violence. adopted descriptive analysis two stories published on G1 website as a methodology highlight faced daily women in services. found (re)produces denial rights, non-access servi...

We introduce a point process model for inter-gang violence driven by retaliatory behavior. For this purpose we use a coupled system of state-dependent jump stochastic differential equations to model the conditional intensities of the directed network of gang rivalries. The system admits an exact simulation strategy based upon Poisson thinning. The model produces a wide variety of transient or s...

Over the 10-year period studied, a total of 96 children under 15 years of age were killed in Sweden. This number constituted an average annual rate of 0.6 per 100,000 children. The violence, most frequently involving strangulation, shooting, and stabbing, was largely directed at young children. The pattern of child homicide was mainly characterized by intrafamilial violence, especially in conne...

This research paper examines the work of philosopher Alain Badiou and his analysis 20th-century violence. The author argues that last century was marked by violence destruction, from world wars to extermination camps state crimes. claims this stems a passion for real, quest transform existing reality create new world. However, clashes with itself, creating an irreducible difference between real...

BACKGROUND Violence directed towards GPs has been recognized as a significant problem in the UK. In Australian urban general practice, no study has previously examined this topic. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the responses of Australian urban GPs to experiences of violence and to perceptions of risk of violence. METHODS DESIGN A qualitative study of data colle...

OBJECTIVE Firearm violence is a significant public health problem in the United States, and alcohol is frequently involved. This article reviews existing research on the relationships between alcohol misuse; ownership, access to, and use of firearms; and the commission of firearm violence, and discusses the policy implications of these findings. METHOD Narrative review augmented by new tabula...