Abstract
The aim was to know how health assessment to women in violence situation is developed. Literature review on LILACS and MEDLINE databases was conducted in April 2013 with the descriptors: “domestic violence” and “women’s health”, on a 1994-2012 timeframe. Statistics characterization and content theme analysis of the scientific production were developed. Results showed that the assessment is permeated by institutional limitation and an approach strictly clinical that makes identification and diagnosis of violence difficult, reinforcing invisibility in health care. Professional assessment is influenced by socio-cultural and the naturalization of the phenomena, which is not considered a public health issue. Technical knowledge is insufficient, making the possibility of promoting violence cycle rupture difficult. However, we envisage reception as a possibility to assess female demands. We conclude the need to include the theme in health undergraduate courses and also the urgency of this learning experience to support a multidisciplinary and intersectoral work web. Thus, rethinking assessment as a way of (re)organizing how health care is structured in order to compose an assessment web to women and guarantee reception of their demands is needed. Else, constructing competence allied to coping public policy to the problem and guaranteeing a human and full assistance will stay only on the academic field, constituting itself as a limit on protecting life of these women and their families.
Highlights
Violence against women has emerged an important determinant of women’s health, as well as a serious public health problem because of the magnitude of epidemiological data, spending on health care, social, economic, in the lives of women and others involved [1]
Content analysis resulted in two empirical categories [14]: The health care of women in situations of violence is permeated by institutional constraints and approach; Attention to women in situations of violence permeated the host enables women to meet the demands
The limitations in the organization of services negatively affect women’s health care, since these are at the mercy of the availability of professional staff
Summary
Violence against women has emerged an important determinant of women’s health, as well as a serious public health problem because of the magnitude of epidemiological data, spending on health care, social, economic, in the lives of women and others involved [1]. While men tend to suffer violence, in general, are practiced in a public space, women, in general, suffer daily with a phenomenon that manifests itself in their own homes and, the majority of times it is practiced by partners and family members It is comprehended as a powerful instrument, resulting of genre, social class, race, ethnicity and generation inequalities [3,6]. It is recommended that interventions aimed at women in situations of violence are through a network of skilled care, and articulate representative of the singularities of women seen coupled with social support [7,8] It is in the health field, displaying their consequences [9]. The health sector has been pioneering and strategic identification of violence and production critical and reflective about this phenomenon [10]
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