@article{ref1,
title="Health advocacy in violence against women: an experience",
journal="Gaceta Sanitaria",
year="2005",
author="Vives-Cases, Carmen and Alvarez-Dardet, C. and Colomer, C. and Bertomeu, Angustias",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="262-264",
abstract="The development of political responses to a problem needs for its construction as a social problem of a continuous epidemiological surveillance system available for the affected public and key decision makers. A women's health advocacy net based initiative was launched in November 2003. Every month the epidemic index of deaths (ratio of deaths in that month and median of deaths occurring the previous 5 years) due to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is published in a section called VIOLENCE ALERT of e-leusis.net a women's web page. The objective was giving visibility to information contributing to shape the problem. from a population perspective. The initiative was introduced at the beginning to journalists and every month a press release with the index results and a comment on it is circulated. More than half of the months studied (January 2003-December 2004) were epidemic (epidemic indexb >/= 1.25). VIOLENCE ALERT has received 2330 visits since then, an average of 65 visits per week. The page attracted media coverage from radio, TV and newspapers.",
language="",
issn="0213-9111",
doi="10.1157/13075962",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1157/13075962"
}