Mapping and exploring health systems' response to intimate partner violence in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For a comprehensive health sector response to intimate partner violence (IPV), interventions should target individual and health facility levels, along with the broader health systems level which includes issues of governance, financing, planning, service delivery, monitoring and evaluation, and demand generation. This study aims to map and explore the integration of IPV response in the Spanish national health system.

Methods

Information was collected on five key areas based on WHO recommendations: policy environment, protocols, training, monitoring and prevention. A systematic review of public documents was conducted to assess 39 indicators in each of Spain's 17 regional health systems. In addition, we performed qualitative content analysis of 26 individual inter

SUBMITTER: Goicolea I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3890595 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature