Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women. Taking action and generating evidence
- Document number
- 2478
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women. Taking action and generating evidence
- Author/publisher
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Prevention, Awareness Raising, Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society, NGO, Human Rights approach, Activism, Education, Training;
- Summary
- The public health approach to prevention taken in this document is intended to complement criminal justice-based approaches. The approach relies upon the use of population- based data to describe the problem, its impact and associated risk and protective factors, while drawing upon the scientific evidence for effective, promising and theoretically indicated prevention strategies. Part of the approach is also to ensure that all policies and programmes include in-built monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. At the same time, taking a life-course perspective will help to identify early risk factors and the best times to disrupt the developmental trajectories towards violent behaviour using a primary prevention approach. For successful primary prevention, early intervention is required that focuses on younger age groups
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