Appraising Health Promotion Action for the 21st century

Appraising Health Promotion Action for the 21st century
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Socio-ecological determinants
and
Violence against Women
•What is the health issue for the population group? The issue of violence against the
population group of women is the targeted cause of concern which shall be emphasised. According
to ANROWS, it has been estimated that 1 out of 3 Australian women and 1 out of 5 Australian
women experience physical and sexual violence.
•Socio-ecological determinants influencing violence against women, have been estimated
to be: marriage at a young age, low income and education level, absence of social or
family support, alcohol and substance abuse and history of trauma.
Main argument:
•The Western Region Strategy to Prevent Violence Against Women (PVT 2030) strategy,
adopts an evidence based, advocacy associated policy framework in combating violence against
women, through encouragement of organizational change and community participation.
•The Building a Respectful Community (BRC 2017-2021) strategy, also adopts an evidence
based approach of policy managing violence against women, but focuses on provision of a gender
equitable approach at the organizational and community level.

Socio-ecological Determinants
Map
Violence
against
Women

Interventions
PVT : Preventing Violence Together (2030)
<
https://whwest.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PVT_strategy_2017.p
df >
• To increase awareness regarding violence
against women and promote gender
equality at individual, community and
organizational level.
• To decrease attitudes which contribute to
violence against women
• To provide scope for women engaging in
decision-making and leadership at the
community, family and workplace level.
• To combat stereotypical and stigmatised
roles of gender which promote violence.
• To promote and normalise cultures and
attitudes of gender equality.
BRT: Building a Respectful Community (2017-
2021)
< https://www.whin.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Building-a-Respectful-
Community-Strategy-2017-2021.pdf >
• To utilise an upstream, holistic approach to
combat drivers of violence, like gender
inequality at the organizational and social
marketing level.
• To undertake early preventive strategies such
as screening families for violence and
educating families on violence against women.
• To prevent recurrence of violence by providing
decision-making strength to survivors in
convicting the perpetrators.
• To provide long term crisis management such
as services of housing assistance, counselling,
legal and behaviour mitigation for men and
ensure safety for the survivors.