Mulheres em situação de violencia : magnitude e repercussões no uso de serviços em unidades basicas de saude do setor publico do municipio de São Paulo

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2003

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The problem of violence agajnst women has been a world phenomenon and of high magnitude to. And it has deserved more studies in the 90 s in the health area based on the knowledge that violence against women is associated to hea1th risks. Intimate partners violence among all kinds of violence has been the most harmful in terms of physical, mental and reproductive health. According to this there has occurred a higher demand to heaIth services. Our hypothesis is that the prevalence of violence perpetrated by intimate partners is very high; the records are very low in dossiers and the women in situation of violence spontaneously tend to use and look for these services. In this sense our study aims to characterize the people of theses services according to users from 15-49 years old, of the Município de São Paulo public health service who have related or not violence by intimate partners. The methodology used was the technique of quantitative research through interviews structured with 1008 users of 08 health services. According to doctors inquiries and through the users interviews. The prevalence of violence by partners -psychological, physical and/or sexual found was of 57,7% among those who were married or who hade an intimate partner by the time of the interviews. AIthough being high the prevalence of violence recorded in dossiers just 03 remarks were registered in these among the 977 analised samples. The average time the users looked for these services was of 2,4 and the average number of appointments was of 4,42 appointments / user age. One first analises points out that services used by women in situation of violence to this specific population has increased compared to those without any episode of violence. Nevertheless firstly the users population to primary care in public health services bave found some difficulties on accessing them according to the average time of use.

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social aspects women mulheres - aspectos sociais psychological aspects violence psychological aspects mulheres - aspectos psicologicos women saude publica - são paulo (sp) violencia - aspectos psicologicos

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