Strengthening health systems response to violence against women: protocol to test approaches to train health workers in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, including in low- and middle-income [LMIC] countries, there is increased attention to and investment in interventions to prevent and respond to violence against women; however, most of these approaches are delivered outside of formal or informal health systems. The World Health Organization published clinical and policy guidelines Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women in 2013. Further evidence is needed concerning implementation of the Guidelines, including how health care providers perceive training interventions, if the training approach meets their needs and is of relevance to them and how to ensure sustainability of changes in practice due to training. This manuscript describes a study protocol for a mixed methods

SUBMITTER: Meyer SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212611 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature