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Preventing Intimate
Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women
Taking action and
generating evidence
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102-Page Publication:
Authors: World Health
Organization and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Number of pages:
94
Publication date:
2010
Languages:
English
ISBN:
978 92 4 156400 7
Overview
This document aims to provide sufficient information for policy-makers and planners to develop data-driven and evidence-based programmes for preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women.
- Chapter
1 outlines the nature, magnitude and consequences of intimate partner and
sexual violence within the broader typology of violence.
- Chapter
2 identifies the risk and protective factors for such violence and the
importance of addressing both risk and protective factors in prevention
efforts.
- Chapter
3 summarizes the scientific evidence base for primary prevention
strategies, and describes programmes of known effectiveness, those
supported by emerging evidence and those that could potentially be
effective but have yet to be sufficiently evaluated for their impact.
- Chapter
4 presents a six-step framework for taking action, generating evidence and
sharing results.
In the
closing section, several future research priorities are outlined and a number
of key conclusions drawn.