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      Entre la negación y la impotencia: prestadores de servicios de salud ante la violencia contra las mujeres en México Translated title: Between denial and helplessness: health care providers facing domestic violence in Mexico

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          OBJETIVO: Conocer los significados y prácticas respecto a la violencia doméstica entre prestadores de servicios de salud, para mejorar la atención. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Entre mayo y noviembre de 2003 se aplicaron 60 entrevistas en profundidad a prestadores de servicios públicos de salud y a informantes clave, en unidades de atención en tres entidades de alta prevalencia de violencia doméstica Quintana Roo, Coahuila y el Distrito Federal. RESULTADOS: Los prestadores fueron clasificados por su grado de adhesión a cuatro tipos de "discursos sobre la violencia" que orientan su práctica cotidiana y que están relacionados con sus valores de género y sus posiciones sociales. La mayoría manifestó disposición a atender el problema. CONCLUSIONES: La atención de la violencia doméstica es insuficiente en los servicios de salud, pero esto parece deberse más a que el discurso tolerante de la violencia predominó entre los tomadores de decisiones, que a las actitudes de los propios prestadores de servicios; éstos demostraron mayor conciencia de los derechos de las mujeres.

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          OBJECTIVE: To increase the knowledge of health care providers´ understanding of and practices on domestic violence, in order to improve care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was conducted between May and November 2003, In Quintana Roo, Coahuila, and Mexico City, three Mexican states with a high prevalence of domestic violence. Sixty in-depth interviews with health care providers in public health institutions and key informants of health service provision were completed. RESULTS: Health care providers were categorized based on the extent to which they reproduced four "discourses about violence". These discourses influence their daily practice and are related to the informants' gender values and social positions. Most informants expressed their willingness to address the issue of domestic violence. CONCLUSIONS: Attention to and care for domestic violence is insufficient in health services; this may be due more closely related to a predominant discourse tolerating domestic violence among decision-makers, than to the attitudes of health care providers; the latter demonstrated greater awareness of women's rights.

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          Violencia contra la mujer: la carga oculta sobre la salud

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            Salud Pública de México
            Salud pública Méx
            Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (Cuernavaca )
            0036-3634
            2006
            : 48
            : suppl 2
            : s259-s267
            Affiliations
            [1 ] Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Mexico
            [2 ] Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios de la Familia
            [3 ] UNAM Argentina
            [4 ] Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Mexico
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            S0036-36342006000800006
            10.1590/s0036-36342006000800006
            7081235c-5cb5-46cc-b749-6e64f406dcfd

            http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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            Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0036-3634&lng=en
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            Health Policy & Services

            Public health
            domestic violence,gender,health care providers,Mexico,violencia doméstica,género,prestadores de servicios de salud,México

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