Domestic Violence and Health Care in India

Domestic Violence and Health Care in India
Author: Meerambika Mahapatro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811061599

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This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India. By discussing the global literature, legal systems, methodological challenges of gathering information on domestic violence, and health systems issues, along with learnings from case studies, it fills a significant gap in the literature between health care policy and practice vis-à-vis victims of domestic violence. It therefore enables a systemic and systematic response to incidents of domestic violence. Policy instructions, court verdicts, government interventions, community-based direct interventions and related case discussions in the book help in the understanding and management of cases. Though the book uses case studies from India, it addresses globally relevant issues for health care professionals. In view of the paucity of application of systematic evidence-based knowledge, the holistic perspective presented in the book is important to prevent domestic violence, protect women’s rights, and promote healthcare and wellbeing of women and children facing domestic violence. Medical professionals are expected to intervene in instances of injuries related to domestic violence---a responsibility that they are currently unable to fulfil due to lack of training in recognizing abuse and lack of tools for intervention. This book improves hands-on-knowledge by providing information on where to refer victims for assistance and timely intervention. Comprehensive yet lucid, this book is useful for academics, policy makers, non-government organizations and women’s rights groups in helping victims during and after a violent episode and also in improving reporting and referral services.

Determinants of Domestic Violence in North Eastern Region of India

Determinants of Domestic Violence in North Eastern Region of India
Author: Anindita Sinha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
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Domestic Violence is a critical public health challenge and the Sustainable Development Goals include elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls within the agenda. However, there is a relative dearth of research on the factors affecting it in the case of North Eastern Region of India (NER) particularly from the perspective of incorporating women's economic autonomy and sociocultural norms in a comprehensive way. The present paper is an attempt to critically examine the role of economic autonomy and sociocultural norms in determining the incidence of DV in the region. The study analyzed data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey India, 2015-16. Separate binary logistic regressions are carried out on tribes and non-tribes of NER, as it is of interest to see whether and to what extent different factors affect the experience of domestic violence among women in the two social groups.IBM SPSS version 20 software was used for data analysis. Sociocultural norms reflected in leverage of women in domestic-decision-making, experience of controlling behaviour of husband and attitude of women towards wife-beating play a critical role in domestic violence among both tribal and non-tribal communities in NER. Economic autonomy among tribal women, specifically the ownership of land, leads to higher rate of domestic violence. Domestic violence has a strong sociocultural component associated with gender norms prevailing in the society. Policy interventions targeted at changing anti female gender norms at the community level and sustained rises in women's autonomy seem indispensable for reducing domestic violence in NER.

Women's Autonomy in India

Women's Autonomy in India
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Release: 2007
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This thesis studies the relationship between women's autonomy and the incidence of violence against women, using India as a case study. A review of research conducted on the causes and motivation of aggressors, as well as characteristics that make women less susceptible to violence, will be developed here. The characteristics that contribute to the manifestation of domestic gender-based violence will also be presented. Statistical analysis will be used to test the hypothesis that women's autonomy is inversely correlated to the incidence of domestic violence. Women's autonomy is categorized by demographic features, religion, decision making authority, mobility, and contextual belief variables. Two dependent variables, whether woman was beaten since age 15 and whether woman has been beaten in the past 12 months, are used in two models here. Each model uses a probit approach. Autonomy variables are used to test whether and which of these characteristics will affect the incidence of beating.

Violence against Women in India

Violence against Women in India
Author: N. Prabha Unnithan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351167901

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Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India. It draws from the latest criminological research on the nature and extent of such violence; discusses cultural myths and practices that underlie the problem; and examines policies and programs that respond to it. This collection will advance research, justice, and social action to tackle this heartbreaking problem. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.

The Adivasis of India

The Adivasis of India
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Release: 1998
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Demographic Issues in Nigeria: Insights and Implications

Demographic Issues in Nigeria: Insights and Implications
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1504940970

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The book deals with a broad range of contemporary and recurring empirical and practical issues encapsulated within the context of demographic inquiry and analysis. The papers included here reflect strands of thoughts and research that find expression in interdisciplinary outlook focussing on sexuality, fertility, gender, morbidity and mortality, migration, maternal and child health and the elderly.

The Social Determinants of Health in India

The Social Determinants of Health in India
Author: Devaki Nambiar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811059993

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Drawing from the work of academics and practitioners from ten states across the country, this edited volume showcases and synthesises the diversity and richness of efforts to understand and act on the social determinants of health in India, the conditions in which we are born, grow, live work and age. Such an effort is salient in the current era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which have foregrounded the issue of equity and the need for a comprehensive, multi-sectoral agenda for health and development. In India, particularly in the last decade, there have been myriad efforts to more critically theorise and intervene in areas with bearing on health, like conflict, nutrition or urbanisation, or to address the concerns of vulnerable groups like women, children and the elderly. From these efforts emerge lessons of convergence for academic and policymaking institutions in India who are looking to operationalise and bring life to the SDG agenda in India and other Low and Middle Income Country settings. The book comprises eleven chapters and six short commentaries that appear in conversation with each other, as well as an annexure of validated, ready-to-use indicators for monitoring of social determinants of health.