{"id":2244,"date":"2022-02-25T01:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2022-03-06T01:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T01:53:52","slug":"gender-based-violence-is-a-public-health-issue-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Gender-Based Violence Is a Public Health Issue &#8211; WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/25-11-2021-gender-based-violence-is-a-public-health-issue-using-a-health-systems-approach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gender based violence is a public health issue: using a health systems approach (who.int)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>25 November 2021<strong>\u00a0&#8211; <\/strong>Providing quality health care services for GBV survivors is critical in any crisis, whether it be natural disasters, conflicts, disease outbreaks or others. GBV has significant and long-lasting impacts on physical and mental health including injury, unintended pregnancy and pregnancy complications, sexually transmitted infections , HIV, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and even death.<\/p>\n<p>The role of health care providers to address GBV is crucial to ensure life-saving care for women, girls and other at-risk groups. They are often among the first\u2014and only\u2014points of contact for GBV survivors. Health care providers not only offer immediate medical attention and first-line support but can link survivors to other needed assistance including mental health and psychosocial support, social services, legal aid, shelter\/housing services, or livelihood support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The role of health care providers to address GBV is crucial to ensure life-saving care for women, girls and other at-risk groups. They are often among the first\u2014and only\u2014points of contact for GBV survivors. Health care providers not only offer immediate medical attention and first-line support but can link survivors to other needed assistance including mental health and psychosocial support, social services, legal aid, shelter\/housing services, or livelihood support.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Addressing gender-based violence with a health systems approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gender-based violence response requires a multi-sectoral response and health systems have an important role to play in it. To ensure or strengthen a health systems response to GBV requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding the impact of GBV on the health and wellbeing of women and their children<\/li>\n<li>Improving health workers\u2019 and managers\u2019 understanding of what is required for a survivor-centered, effective response<\/li>\n<li>Integrating care for gender-based violence survivors within health services rather than setting up parallel services;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting long-term efforts to sensitize, train and support health professionals at all levels to provide a safe and effective response for gender-based violence survivors;<\/li>\n<li>Readiness to address this and support providers through for example, ensuring infrastructure for privacy and confidentiality, having written protocol\/standard operating procedures, a referral network in place.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring adequate documentation, monitoring and evaluation of services for continuous learning and improvement of services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: WUNRN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender based violence is a public health issue: using a health systems approach (who.int) 25 November 2021\u00a0&#8211; Providing quality health care services for GBV survivors is critical in any crisis, whether it be natural disasters, conflicts, disease outbreaks or others.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vesti","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_series&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}