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Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Health Service Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Comparative Health Systems and Service Analysis.
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- Integration of psychological interventions in multi-sectoral humanitarian programmes: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
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- A realist review of which advocacy interventions work for which abused women under what circumstances.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Barriers to healthcare and justice for sexual and gender-based violence survivors in Sierra Leone: A gender-integrated socio-ecological analysis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Development of Virtual Reality Scenarios Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Health Sciences Education: Qualitative Approach.JMIR medical education · 2026Article
- Screening and Caring for Older Adults Affected by Sexual or Other Types of Violence: A Pilot Study at Three Belgian Geriatric Departments.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- A socio-ecological analysis of intimate partner violence among women of reproductive age in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis of data from 2008 to 2018 Nigeria demographic and health surveys.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intimate partner violence help-seeking attitudes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Global burden of diseases attributable to intimate partner violence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Healthcare providers' perception about challenges of reproductive health service utilisation.Journal of public health in Africa · 2025Article
- Medical mesocosms and cohort differences in victim decisions in spousal violence in Sub-Saharan Africa.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
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- Comparing health systems readiness for integrating domestic violence services in Brazil, occupied Palestinian Territories, Nepal and Sri Lanka.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
- Asking about violence and abuse among patients experiencing homelessness: a focus group study with healthcare professionals.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Ethical challenges in global research on health system responses to violence against women: a qualitative study of policy and professional perspectives.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
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Abstract
This systematic review synthesizes 11 studies of health-sector responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) in low- and middle-income countries. The services that were most comprehensive and integrated in their responsiveness to IPV were primarily in primary health and antenatal care settings. Findings suggest that the following facilitators are important: availability of clear guidelines, policies, or protocols; management support; intersectoral coordination with clear, accessible on-site and off-site referral options; adequate and trained staff with accepting and empathetic attitudes toward survivors of IPV; initial and ongoing training for health workers; and a supportive and supervised environment in which to enact new IPV protocols. A key characteristic of the most integrated responses was the connection or "linkages" between different individual factors. Irrespective of their service entry point, what emerged as crucial was a connected systems-level response, with all elements implemented in a coordinated manner.
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