TY - JOUR
T1 - Violence against women in the Covid-19 pandemic
T2 - A review of the literature and a call for shared strategies to tackle health and social emergencies
AU - Viero, A.
AU - Barbara, G.
AU - Montisci, M.
AU - Kustermann, K.
AU - Cattaneo, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - The aim of this article was to conduct a rapid critical review of the literature about the relationship between violence against women (VAW) and the current COVID-19 pandemic. After the screening process, a total of 42 articles were considered. Our review confirmed that the “stay at home” policies to contrast the pandemic have increased the problem of VAW, creating a “shadow pandemic within the pandemic”, as it was called by the United Nations. However, rigorous studies estimating the relationship between VAW and COVID-19 pandemic are scarce; most of the articles are commentaries, letters, editorials, and most of the published data derives from social media, internet, anecdotal evidence and helplines reports. Health care systems should promote further investigations into the relation between VAW and COVID-19, to identify creative solutions to provide clinical care and forensic services for victims of VAW.
AB - The aim of this article was to conduct a rapid critical review of the literature about the relationship between violence against women (VAW) and the current COVID-19 pandemic. After the screening process, a total of 42 articles were considered. Our review confirmed that the “stay at home” policies to contrast the pandemic have increased the problem of VAW, creating a “shadow pandemic within the pandemic”, as it was called by the United Nations. However, rigorous studies estimating the relationship between VAW and COVID-19 pandemic are scarce; most of the articles are commentaries, letters, editorials, and most of the published data derives from social media, internet, anecdotal evidence and helplines reports. Health care systems should promote further investigations into the relation between VAW and COVID-19, to identify creative solutions to provide clinical care and forensic services for victims of VAW.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Domestic violence
KW - Intimate partner violence
KW - Pandemic
KW - Violence against women
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U2 - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110650
DO - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110650
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85097734422
VL - 319
JO - Forensic Science International
JF - Forensic Science International
SN - 0379-0738
M1 - 110650
ER -