TeleHealth In The Context Of Domestic Violence – Some Important Tips.

This appeared last week. Telehealth: harm or benefit for survivors of intimate partner violence? Authored by Kelsey Hegarty Issue 29 / 9 August 2021 SEXUAL and domestic violence has wide-ranging impacts on health and wellbeing, resulting in high attendance of women survivors in health settings. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement restriction and finances appear to be exacerbating sexual and domestic violence incidence, nature and severity (here and here). In July 2020, a national survey of 15 000 Australian women showed 4.6% experienced physical or sexual violence, 5.8% coercive control and 11.6% one form of emotionally abusive, harassing or controlling behaviour by a partner in the previous 3 months. For two-thirds of these women the violence started or got worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns enhance social isolation of women and their children, a common tactic that some men use as part of coercive control over partners, enabling more abuse to happen....
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 19, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs