Mapping and exploring health systems’ response to intimate partner violence in Spain

BMC Public Health

Carmen Vives-Cases¹  Fauhn Minvielle²  Kerstin Edin³  Ann Öhman⁴  Erica Briones-Vozmediano⁵  Isabel Goicolea⁵ 

[1] CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain;Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, Alicante University, Alicante, Spain;Public Health Research Group, Department of Community Nursing, Alicante, Spain

关键词: Content analysis;    Mixed methods;    Spain;    Intimate partner violence;    Health policy;    Health system;   

Others  :  1161463
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-1162

 received in 2013-06-19, accepted in 2013-12-02,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

For a comprehensive health sector response to intimate partner violence (IPV), interventions should target individual and health facility levels, along with the broader health systems level which includes issues of governance, financing, planning, service delivery, monitoring and evaluation, and demand generation. This study aims to map and explore the integration of IPV response in the Spanish national health system.

Methods

Information was collected on five key areas based on WHO recommendations: policy environment, protocols, training, monitoring and prevention. A systematic review of public documents was conducted to assess 39 indicators in each of Spain’s 17 regional health systems. In addition, we performed qualitative content analysis of 26 individual interviews with key informants responsible for coordinating the health sector response to IPV in Spain.

Results

In 88% of the 17 autonomous regions, the laws concerning IPV included the health sector response, but the integration of IPV in regional health plans was just 41%. Despite the existence of a supportive national structure, responding to IPV still relies strongly on the will of health professionals. All seventeen regions had published comprehensive protocols to guide the health sector response to IPV, but participants recognized that responding to IPV was more complex than merely following the steps of a protocol. Published training plans existed in 43% of the regional health systems, but none had institutionalized IPV training in medical and nursing schools. Only 12% of regional health systems collected information on the quality of the IPV response, and there are many limitations to collecting information on IPV within health services, for example underreporting, fears about confidentiality, and underuse of data for monitoring purposes. Finally, preventive activities that were considered essential were not institutionalized anywhere.

Conclusions

Within the Spanish health system, differences exist in terms of achievements both between regions and between the areas assessed. Progress towards integration of IPV has been notable at the level of policy, less outstanding regarding health service delivery, and very limited in terms of preventive actions.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Goicolea et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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