First Surveillance of Violence against Women during COVID-19 Lockdown: Experience from “Niguarda” Hospital in Milan, Italy

Giulio Nittari, Getu Gamo Sagaro, Alessandro Feola, Mattia Scipioni, Giovanna Ricci and Ascanio Sirignano
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Giulio Nittari: Telemedicine and Telepharmacy Center, University of Camerino, 9-62032 Camerino, Italy
Getu Gamo Sagaro: Telemedicine and Telepharmacy Center, University of Camerino, 9-62032 Camerino, Italy
Alessandro Feola: Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Luciano Armanni, 5-80138 Naples, Italy
Mattia Scipioni: School of Law, University of Camerino, Via A. D’Accorso, 16-62032 Camerino, Italy
Giovanna Ricci: School of Law, University of Camerino, Via A. D’Accorso, 16-62032 Camerino, Italy
Ascanio Sirignano: School of Law, University of Camerino, Via A. D’Accorso, 16-62032 Camerino, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 7, 1-7

Abstract: Violence against women emerges with tragic regularity in the daily news. It is now an evident trace of a dramatic social problem, the characteristics of which are not attributable to certain economic, cultural, or religious conditions of the people involved but affect indiscriminately, in a unanimous way, our society. The study is a survey about the number of hospital admissions due to episodes attributable to violence against women, recorded by the Niguarda Hospital in Milan in the period 1 March–30 May from 2017 to 2020. This period, in 2020, corresponds to the coronavirus Lockdown in Italy. All the medical records of the Emergency department were reviewed, and the extracted data classified in order to identify the episodes of violence against women and the features of the reported injuries and the characteristics of the victims. The data did not show an increase in the number of cases in 2020 compared to previous years, but we did find a notable increase in the severity of injuries.

Keywords: violence; domestic violence; gender-based violence; covid-19; lockdown (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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