Climate and Gender: Association Between Droughts and Intimate Partner Violence in India.

ABSTRACT: Extreme climate events are related to women's exposure to different forms of violence. We examined the relationship between droughts and physical, sexual, and emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) in India by using 2 different definitions of drought: precipitation-based drought and socioeconomic drought. We analyzed data from 2 rounds of a nationally representative survey, the National Family Health Survey, where married women were asked about their experiences of IPV in the previous year (2015-2016 and 2019-2021; n = 122,696). Precipitation-based drought was estimated using remote sensing data and geographic information system (GIS) mapping, while socioeconomic drought status was collected from government records. Logistic regression models showed precipitation-based drought to increa

SUBMITTER: Dehingia N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10999644 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature