‘The public health turn on violence against women’: analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies

‘The public health turn on violence against women’: analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies

Abstract This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on violence against women”. The new framing implies increased d...

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Main Authors: Ann Öhman, Monica Burman, Maria Carbin, Kerstin Edin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Violence against women
Intimate partner violence
Public health
Gender equality
Policy
Healthcare services
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-08766-7

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