How Well Does the World Health Organization Definition of Domestic Violence Work for India?

Seema Sahay, Carlos del Rio, Anuradha Paranjape, Kristin L. Dunkle, Rob Stephenson, Ratnaprabha R. Potdar and Ameeta S. Kalokhe

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: Domestic violence (DV) is reported by 40% of married women in India and associated with substantial morbidity. An operational research definition is therefore needed to enhance understanding of DV epidemiology in India and inform DV interventions and measures. To arrive at a culturally-tailored definition, the paper aimed to better understand how definitions provided by the World Health Organization and the 2005 India Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act match the perceptions of behaviors constituting DV among the Indian community. Between September 2012 and January 2013, 16 key informant interviews with experts in DV and family counseling and 2 gender-concordant focus groups of lay community members were conducted in Pune, India to understand community perceptions of the definition of DV, perpetrators of DV, and examples of DV encountered by married women in Pune, India.

Keywords: India; Copulation; Domestic violence; Children; Female infertility; Behavior; Religion; Weapons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
Note: Institutional Papers
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/show_Artic ... ionalPapers&aid=7683

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:7683

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash (padmaprakash@esocialsciences.com).