Citation

Vives-Cases C, Alvarez-Dardet C, Colomer C, Bertomeu A. Gac. Sanit. 2005; 19(3): 262-264.

Vernacular Title

Una experiencia de defensa de la salud en violencia contra las mujeres.

Affiliation

Departamento de Salud Pública. Universidad de Alicante. Alicante. España. Red de Investigación sobre Salud y Género.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1157/13075962

PMID

15960962

Abstract

The development of political responses to a problem needs for its construction as a social problem of a continuous epidemiological surveillance system available for the affected public and key decision makers. A women's health advocacy net based initiative was launched in November 2003. Every month the epidemic index of deaths (ratio of deaths in that month and median of deaths occurring the previous 5 years) due to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is published in a section called VIOLENCE ALERT of e-leusis.net a women's web page. The objective was giving visibility to information contributing to shape the problem. from a population perspective. The initiative was introduced at the beginning to journalists and every month a press release with the index results and a comment on it is circulated. More than half of the months studied (January 2003-December 2004) were epidemic (epidemic indexb >/= 1.25). VIOLENCE ALERT has received 2330 visits since then, an average of 65 visits per week. The page attracted media coverage from radio, TV and newspapers.