TY - JOUR PY - 2003// TI - Responding to violence against women: WHO's Multicountry Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence JO - Health and human rights A1 - Garcia-Moreno, Claudia A1 - Watts, Charlotte H. A1 - Jansen, Henrica A. F. M. A1 - Ellsberg, Mary Carroll A1 - Heise, Lori SP - 112 EP - 127 VL - 6 IS - 2 N2 - The World Health Organization (WHO), in response to the lack of data on the magnitude and nature of violence against women, initiated a multicountry study on women's health and domestic violence. The WHO study, implemented in eight countries, was the first global effort to gather reliable and comparable data on domestic violence and women's health across countries. The study also demonstrates how carefully developed and applied research can act as a useful intervention at many levels of society and government and for all participants, researchers as well as respondents. The study further illustrates how partnering with researchers and women's organizations to collect evidence of the magnitude, consequences, and determinants of domestic violence can help strengthen national efforts to address violence against women and can act as a facilitating force for change.

LA - SN - 1079-0969 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4065432 ID - ref1 ER -