Health Care

Domestic Violence is a health care issue.

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Study: Many Victims of Partner Violence Experience Reproductive Coercion

Study: Many Victims of Partner Violence Experience Reproductive Coercion

A groundbreaking study released this week sheds light on a little-recognized form of abuse in which men use coercion and birth control sabotage to cause their partners to become pregnant against their wills. The study, published in the January issue of Contraception, finds this kind of reproductive control to be especially common in relationships in which women experience physical or sexual partner violence. [...]

Project Connect: Request for Proposals

Project Connect: Request for Proposals

The Family Violence Prevention Fund is launching a new multi-state initiative, Project Connect: A Coordinated Public Health Initiative to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Violence, supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health. The FVPF is working with the OWH to identify and partner with statewide teams to: develop policy and public heath responses to domestic and sexual violence in public health programs (including family planning, home visitation, adolescent health, and other maternal child health programs) and provide health services in domestic and sexual violence programs. [...]

House Health Reform Bill Contains Key Domestic Violence Provisions

House Health Reform Bill Contains Key Domestic Violence Provisions

The Family Violence Prevention Fund is praising the U.S. House of Representatives for including in its health reform bill a key prevention initiative that will advance the health care system’s response to domestic violence and curb the tremendous health costs that result from it. The legislation, passed on November 7, requires private insurers and the new Health Insurance Exchange to reimburse health care providers who assess patients for domestic violence and provide brief counseling and referrals. [...]

National Conference on Health & Domestic Violence

<i>National Conference on Health & Domestic Violence</i>

Some 750 of the world’s leading medical, public health and family violence experts were in New Orleans this past October for the 2009 National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence to examine new research and strategies to prevent violence and help victims. The Conference was presented by the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF). [...]

Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence

The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence is the nation’s clearinghouse for information on the health care response to domestic violence and provides free technical assistance and materials to thousands of people each year. The Center is one of five specialized domestic violence resource centers in the country funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [...]

Reproductive Health Initiative

Reproductive Health Initiative

Pregnancy is an important experience in a woman’s life and violence should not be a part of it. With nearly one in three women at risk for abuse in her lifetime, domestic violence is more common than pre-eclamplsia and hypertension -- both commonly addressed during pregnancy. Yet women are rarely asked about abuse or given information about the links between violence and their health. [...]

NEWS

Nov 23, 2009
The American Medical Association (AMA) presented Family Violence Prevention Fund Director of Health Lisa James with its Citation for Distinguished Service on November 7 at the its semi-annual policy-making meeting. [...]
Aug 5, 2009
The nation’s leading domestic violence prevention agency, which runs the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (funded by the U. [...]
Jun 19, 2009
Battered women are more than three times as likely to contract HIV as women who are not in violent relationships, according to a newly released study of nearly 14,000 women in the United States. [...]