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  • Normalizing Policies of Inaction-The Case of Health Care in Australia for Women Affected by Domestic Violence

    Author(s)
    Tower, Marion
    Rowe, Jennifer
    Wallis, Marianne
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wallis, Marianne
    Tower, Marion
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Domestic violence impacts on all aspects of affected women's lives and results in poor general, reproductive, and psychological health (World Health Organisation, 2010). Despite mounting evidence that current health care responses to women affected by domestic violence are problematic, policies have nevertheless been rolled out without addressing issues identified. Funding cuts, fragmentation of services, and failure to establish good practice has resulted in a discourse where women's needs are pushed to the outside and they are marginalized, lost in the language and discourse of policy, normalizing a discourse of ...
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    Domestic violence impacts on all aspects of affected women's lives and results in poor general, reproductive, and psychological health (World Health Organisation, 2010). Despite mounting evidence that current health care responses to women affected by domestic violence are problematic, policies have nevertheless been rolled out without addressing issues identified. Funding cuts, fragmentation of services, and failure to establish good practice has resulted in a discourse where women's needs are pushed to the outside and they are marginalized, lost in the language and discourse of policy, normalizing a discourse of incompletion at policy and bureaucracy levels.
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    Journal Title
    Health Care for Women International
    Volume
    32
    Issue
    9
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2011.580406
    Subject
    Health Policy
    Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
    Nursing
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/43506
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