TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Hospital visits due to domestic violence from 1994 to 2011 in the Solomon Islands: a descriptive case series
JO  - Hawai'i journal of medicine and public health
A1  - Farrell, Penny C.
A1  - Negin, Joel
A1  - Houasia, Patrick
A1  - Munamua, Alex B.
A1  - Leon, David P.
A1  - Rimon, Mia
A1  - Martiniuk, Alexandra Lc
SP  - 276
EP  - 282
VL  - 73
IS  - 9
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2165-8218
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -