Health and Welfare Canada family violence prevention evaluation report

Health Care Related to Abuse, Assault, Neglect and Family Violence, 1989

The increase in the number of smaller and more unstable family structures could undermine the family networks of solidarity and make the provision of health and care within families more difficult to continue.

Gender equality and women's empowerment || Prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls Could include sexual violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation and femicide, access to justice || End all forms of discrimination against women and girls Could include access to economic opportunities, productive assets and income, legislation and rights, division of responsibilities between women and men || Increase women’s representation, participation and leadership in decision-making at all levels and in all spheres Could include political representation, women in management positions and in key professions such as ...[+++] judicial branch, police and academia || Ensure women’s and girls' universal and equal access to essential services Could include access to health care and family planning, education, energy, water and sanitation, and other services, including ICT and related training || Close and eliminate the gender wage gap in the public and private sector Could include wage levels of women compared to men, labour market participation ||

Influencing factors and possible areas for action: Assessing levels of expenditure on the health workforce Ensuring better working conditions for health workers, Increasing staff motivation and morale Considering recruitment and training campaigns, in particular to take advantage of the growth in the proportion of over-55s in the workplace and those who no longer have family commitments Organising chronic disease management practices and ...[+++]long-term care provision closer to home or in a community setting Providing for a more effective deployment of the available health workforce Considering "return to practice" campaigns to attract back those who have left the health workforce Promoting more social and ethnic diversity in recruitment Raising awareness in schools large range of careers in the health and care sectors |

Deeply deplores the persistent high levels of domestic violence, including so-called honour crimes and the phenomenon of forced marriages; welcomes, in that connection, the initiatives by women’s movements which give visibility to these problems and urges the Government to step up its preventive efforts at all levels, in particular by enforcing Law No 4320 on the Protection of the Family and by monitoring its implementation by the ...[+++] police and the judiciary, by obliging municipalities of over 50 000 inhabitants to provide sufficient shelters for women and minors in danger, by effectively monitoring full compliance with this obligation, and by putting in place a system of follow-up assistance for women and minors leaving the shelters, in order to provide them with appropriate psychological support, judicial assistance and health care and to assist their reintegration into society; calls on the Government to establish adequate and effective oversight of municipalities’ compliance with this obligation; urges the judiciary to ensure that violence against women and minors, as well as those fighting so-called honour crimes, is consistently and properly punished;