Equidad / Mujeres y género / Violencia contra las mujeres

GENDER VIOLENCE 2005 REPORT 

This first report takes in the information on months prior and subsequent to the approval of the Organic Act 1/2004; i.e. the period extending from June 2004 to June 2005. It has been written by general assent and cooperation in the Commission To Combat Gender Violence of the National Health System’s Interterritorial Council. The Observatory on Women’s Health of the Quality Agency pertaining to the Ministry of Health and Consumers that assumes the secretaryship of the Commission has carried out the compilation and synthesis as well as the inclusion of results yielded by commissioned studies. 

The information gathered is of interest as a first step to better know the magnitude of the problem, the different responses contributed by public health services and the existing needs, in order to improve both their monitoring and their being met. 

The information gathered is of interest as a first step to better know the magnitude of the problem, the different responses contributed by public health services and the existing needs, in order to improve both their monitoring and their being met. The main conclusion is that there exists widespread concern about the problem in the National Health System as a whole, that translates, on the one hand, into the numerous and diverse responses from the autonomous health services which aim at informing, raising public awareness and training the general public and healthcare staff, and, on the other hand, into the establishment in all Autonomous Communities of welfare protocols for the healthcare of women victims.

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