@article{ref1,
title="Hospital visits due to domestic violence from 1994 to 2011 in the Solomon Islands: a descriptive case series",
journal="Hawai'i journal of medicine and public health",
year="2014",
author="Farrell, Penny C. and Negin, Joel and Houasia, Patrick and Munamua, Alex B. and Leon, David P. and Rimon, Mia and Martiniuk, Alexandra Lc",
volume="73",
number="9",
pages="276-282",
abstract="The Solomon Islands has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. This paper is a descriptive case series of all cases of domestic violence presenting to the Solomon Islands National Referral Hospital (NRH) over 18 years. Data were routinely collected from a database of all patients who were treated by NRH general surgery and orthopedic clinicians between 1994 and 2011, inclusive. The total number of cases in the injury database as a result of domestic violence was 387. The average number of cases in the database per year from 1994 to 2011 was 20. There were 6% more female patients (205 of 387; 53%) than male (182 of 387; 47%). Of the cases in which the perpetrator of the violence against a female patient was specified (111 of 205 female cases), 74% (82 of 111) were the patient's husband. Only 5% (5 of 111) of cases in females were inflicted by another female. This analysis provides the best available information on domestic violence cases requiring a visit to a tertiary hospital in a Pacific Island in the specified time period and is undoubtedly an under-estimate of the total cases of domestic violence. Preventing and treating domestic violence in the Solomon Islands and in the Pacific is an important challenge and there is a significant role for secondary and tertiary health services in screening for and preventing domestic violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2165-8218",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}