UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS CARRERA ADMINISTRACION DE EMPRESAS sexual violence against women

HEALTH EFFECTS Dating violence and sexual violence occur to victims and their children severe physical, psychological, sexual and reproductive short and long term, and have a high economic and social cost.

Among the physical health effects are headache, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal disorders, limited mobility and poor general health. In some cases it can lead to injury, sometimes fatal. Partner violence and sexual violence can lead to unwanted pregnancies, gynecological problems, induced abortions and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV / AIDS. Sexual violence, especially in childhood, can also increase the consumption of snuff, alcohol and drugs and risky sexual practices in later life.

Children who grow up in families where there is intimate partner violence can suffer a range of behavioral and emotional problems that may be associated with the commission or condition of violence in later life. Dating violence has also been associated with increased rates of mortality and morbidity in children under 5 years (for example, diarrheal diseases and malnutrition).

In collaboration with several associates, the OMS: It gathers scientific data about the reach and the different type of couple violence and sexual violence in different environments, and it supports the efforts of the countries to document and to quantify these types of violence. This is fundamental to understand the magnitude and the nature from the problem to world level. It elaborates technical orientations based on scientific data on the prevention of couple's violence and sexual violence, and the invigoration of the answers of the sector from the health to that phenomenon.

The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in potential or actual physical harm, sexual or psychological, including threats or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public life or private. DATING VIOLENCE Dating violence refers to behaviors that occur in the scope of an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological, such as physical assault, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, controlling behaviors. c

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS The social and economic costs of violence against women are enormous and have ripple effects throughout society. Women may suffer isolation, inability to work, loss of wages, lack of participation in regular activities, and reduced their ability to care for themselves and their children. RISK FACTORS Risk factors for intimate partner violence and sexual violence are individual, family, community and society. Some are associated with acts of violence and others to their condition, and others to both.

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An appropriate answer of the sector of the health can make important taxes to the prevention of the recurrencia of the violence and the mitigation of its consequences (secondary prevention and third). The sensitization and the formation of the lenders of service of health and of other service they constitute the other important strategy. To approach in an integral way the consequences of the violence and the necessities of the victims and survivors it is necessary or answer multisectorial.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation knows no geographical boundaries or cultural riches