Citation

Madhivanan A, Venugopal V, Dongre AR. Indian J. Community Med. 2020; 45(1): 108-109.

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Publisher MedKnow)

DOI

10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_215_19

PMID

32029997

PMCID

PMC6985956

Abstract

Violence against doctors, which are frequently reported in newspapers, has intimidatingly increased all over the world including India. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), health workers suffer from physical violence between 8% and 38% at some point of time in their careers.[1] The Indian Medical Association report (2015) says more than 75% of doctors had faced violence at work.[2] In spite of various laws and safety measures, continuing attacks on doctors pose a great threat to the health-care system of the community and yet remains under-reported. Since media helps to shape the understanding of the general public on a given issue, a descriptive content analysis of news on physical violence against doctor was done ...

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