Definition
• “The intentionaluse of physical force or power, threatened or actual,
against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that
either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death,
psychological harm, mal development or deprivation”.
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Causes of violence
•Media
• Substance abuse
• Unemployment
• Weapons
• Poverty
• Poor family environment
• stress
Interpersonal violence
• Itsbehaviour against persons to inflict physical harm
Its subdivided into-
• Family violence
• Community violence
• Gender based
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-intentional physical harm
Violenceagainst oneself as in suicide, enforcing law, capital punishment
-unintentional physical harm
Exposure of workers or peoples to substance that injures the body.
Other types ofviolence
• Physical
• Sexual
• Psychological
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• cultural
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Physical violence
• Whensomeone uses a part of their body or an object to control a
person’s actions.
• Its intentional one.
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Sexual violence
• Itsnon-consensual act.
• It occurs when someone forces you to take part in sexual activity.
-Contact offences
-Non contact offences
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Emotional violence
• Itoccurs when someone says or does something to make you feel
stupid or worthless.
• Its an intentional conduct.
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Psychological violence
• Itoccurs when someone uses threats and causes fear in you to gain
something.
Cultural violence
• It occur when you are harmed as a result of practices condomned by
your culture, religion or tradition.
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Spiritual violence
• Itoccurs when someone uses your religious or spiritual beliefs to
manipulate , dominate or control you.
Deprivation
• It’s a failure of someone’s responsibility to provide or take care of
someone need.
• It can be intentional or unintentional.
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Domestic violence
-physical &sexual violence
-Economical violence
-psychological violence
-emotional violence
Its consider as a chronic syndrome.
• A 23years old female came with complaints of headache and
insomnia for the past 2 months and having history of self isolation,
suicidal thoughts, chronic fatigue presenting for past 1 weeks.
• It cycles into 3 stages.
• Learned helplessness.
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The protection ofwomen from domestic violence Act, 2005
• It provides civil remedies to victim
• Authority by central government
• Aggrieved person- WOMEN who is be a sexual partner of male.
• Respondent- MALE who has been in relationship with aggrieved
person
• Information to protection officer-
• Duties of medical facility-
• Penalties- up to 1 year of imprisonment, fine up to 20K.
- PAY compensation
- monetary relief.
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Epidemiology
• 4.4M oflives lost per year, it contributes 8% of all deaths
• About 1 in 3 death from RTA
1 in 6 death from suicide
1 in 10 death from homicide.
• In age of 5 to 29-
5 to 14-
• Need to focus on(PANDEMIC)-
• NFHS- (m/c)
(L/c)
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Surveillance of violencefrom crime
• Death certificates
• Police reports
• govt. survey
• Medical database