Citation

Flitcraft AH. J. Health Care Poor Underserved 1995; 6(2): 187-95; discussion 195-7.

Affiliation

University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Johns Hopkins University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7795032

Abstract

Attempts to address violence intervention and prevention in clinical practice are hampered by the difficulty of creating definitions and categories that accurately reflect community experience. Current medical and legal paradigms, for instance, do not integrate gendered experience into definitional understanding of domestic violence and, consequently, risk the development of systems of care that poorly address women's needs. A model of women's experience of domestic violence and key elements of clinical intervention are presented. Health and public health agencies need to actively integrate an understanding of gender relations in violence intervention and prevention.

Language: en