Integrating Gender-Based Violence in Public Health

Executive Summary

The article explores femicide through a public health ethics and epistemic justice framework, highlighting its invisibility within medical discourse and systemic implications. The authors argue that historically, public health systems have failed to create an inclusive definition of gender, reinforcing disparities, particularly for LGBTQI+ individuals in discussions of gender-based violence. The authors conceptualize femicide as an ideology, a systemic sacrifice of women and girls who are often viewed as isolated victims, despite their collective oppressions across space and time in the form of population health and sociopolitical stability. The article expressed the need to create more intersectional approaches to healthcare, acknowledges the new technological interventions such as saefty apps. While also critically examining the ethical mandates for addressing femicide entrenched in cultural practices.

Author(s)

Esha Bansal
Krishna Patel
Yonis Hassan
Timothy Rice
The tendency to over-look women's experiences of violence- and the power and resources imbalances from which they stem- has become institutionalized in medicine and public health, professions that are otherwise uniquely empowered to alter the status quo

 

 


 

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