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Title Violence against women : the health sector responds / Marijke Velzeboer ... [and others]
Published Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, [2003]
©2003

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Description xi, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Occasional publication ; no. 12
Occasional publication (Pan American Health Organization) ; no.12
Contents I. The Health Sector Responds to Gender Based Violence -- 1. Gender-based violence: a public health and human rights problem -- 2. The "critical path" studies: from research to action -- 3. Joining forces to address gender-based violence in the Americas -- II. Lessons Learned from Central America -- 4. Policy and legal reforms on gender-based violence -- 5. The health sector: building an integrated approach -- 6. What happens at the clinic? -- 7. Beyond the clinic: violence prevention with community partners -- 8. Global implications: the PAHO approach to gender-based violence
Notes Produced in collaboration with Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Norwegian Agency for International Development, [and] Swedish International Development Agency -- t.p
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 127-131
Subject Abused women -- Latin America.
Family violence -- Latin America.
Health services -- Latin America
Women -- Crimes against -- Prevention.
Abused women -- Services for.
Women -- Crimes against.
Violence.
Abused women.
Women -- Violence against -- Latin America.
Battered Women.
Domestic Violence -- prevention & control.
Women's Health Services.
Women's Rights.
Social Change.
SUBJECT Latin America. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007843
Author Velzeboer, Marijke.
Pan American Health Organization.
ISBN 927512292X