Health care professionals, rurality, and intimate femicide

Study
North America

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Research demonstrates that disparities exist in access to quality rural health care. With studies showing that intimate partner violence is more severe and homicide is more prevalent in rural areas, scholars have begun to turn to the inaccessibility of health care in these areas as an explanation. The current study sets out to further this limited body of literature by examining the importance of rurality on the relationship between the availability of health care professionals and intimate femicide at the county level. Results indicate that rurality moderates the relationship between the availability of health care professionals and intimate femicide; however, results are not as predicted.

External Authors

Amy Reckdenwald
Alexis Yohros
Alec Szalewski
Battered women in rural areas are often overlooked or ignored in research (Websdale, 1995; Websdale & Johnson, 1998; Edwards, 2015) despite victimization experiences in rural settings being very different and affected by several key issues such as geography, isolation, subcultural attitudes surrounding gender, enforcement officers, economic disadvantages, education level, and availability of services (Dudgeon & Evanson, 2014; Neill & Hammatt, 2015).

 

 


 

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