TAILIEUCHUNG - Domestic Violence and Women’s Physical Health

As seen in Table 5, the average WHP caseload of non-PPFA facilities in the five areas ranges from 21 per provider in Hidalgo County to 112 in Dallas. If Planned Parenthood affiliates were excluded from WHP, the remaining non-PPFA clinics would have to absorb a massive increase in WHP patients in order to maintain the overall 2011 caseload level. Non-PPFA clinics in Bexar and Dallas Counties would have to double their capacity. Lubbock County providers would need to expand by 250% if the Planned Parenthood affiliate was excluded. In Hidalgo and Midland Counties, the average non-PPFA. | Australian Domestic Family Violence CLEARINGHOUSE Domestic Violence and Women s Physical Health Kristen Fraser Research Assistant Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse Introduction This paper reviews the research which identifies the short- and longer-term impacts of domestic violence on women s physical health and explores some of the implications of these findings for health and domestic violence service providers. Although injuries arising from physical violence are the most obvious health impact of domestic violence in fact intimate partner abuse is associated with much more complex physical health impacts many of them long-term even when the woman is no longer in an abusive relationship. The immediate physical consequences of domestic violence According to Guth and Pachter 2000 intimate partner abuse by a current or former partner is the most common cause of injury to women comprising 21 per cent of traumatic injuries. They identify the following patters of injury associated with domestic violence Copyright Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse 2003. Readers interested in the impact of domestic violence on women s mental health are referred to Clearinghouse Issues Paper 8 Promoting Women s Mental Health The Challenge of Intimate Domestic Violence Against Women written by Angela Taft 2003 . Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse Topic Paper Domestic Violence and Women s Physical Health 1 Injuries range from cuts bruises and black eyes to miscarriage bony injuries splenic and liver trauma partial loss of hearing or vision and scars from burn or knife wounds. Injuries to the breast chest and abdomen are more common in battered women as are the presence of multiple old and current injuries. Defensive injuries are common. For example fractures dislocations and contusions of the wrist and lower arms result from attempts to fend off blows to the chest or face. Guth Pachter 2000 p. 135 In a community sample of women who .

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