‘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...
Main Authors: | Ann Öhman, Monica Burman, Maria Carbin, Kerstin Edin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-08766-7 |
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