Measurement of violence against women and disability: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Violence against women is a serious threat to women's health and human rights globally. Disability has been associated with increased risk of exposure to different forms of violence, however, there are questions concerning how best to measure this association. Research on understanding the association between violence and disability among women has included incorporating short disability measures into violence against women prevalence surveys. The potential to improve understanding of interconnections between violence and disability by measuring violence within disability-focused research is underexplored. The scoping review described here focuses on three areas of measurement of violence against women and disability: (1) measurement of violence within the context of d

SUBMITTER: Meyer SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768952 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature