WHO study finds consequences resound long after the incidents

World Health Organization study, that comprises 25,000 women in 11 countries, suggests that male partner’s violent attitude be the cause of several physical and mental health problems in women.

The women, aged 15 to 49, came from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. The study found that having ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence was associated with poor health overall, and with specific health problems in the four weeks prior to being interviewed: pain, memory loss, dizziness, vaginal discharge and difficulty walking or doing daily activities.

Women aged 15 to 49, from different countries of Asia, Africa and South-America, have been studied under that research. The study suggests women who have ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence is the victim of poor health in general and pain, memory loss, giddiness, leucorrhea, mental and physical tiredness in specific.
Further, the women who have become the victim of their partner’s violence at least once in their lives are more apt to personality disorder and suicidal attempts than the women who were never tortured by their male partners.

How astonishing it is that dissimilarity in age, education or financial well being do not seem the factors in connection between partner violence and physical and mental disorder in women.

Published in this week’s issue of The Lancet, the study results conclude that the consequences of this kind of violence last even after the end of actual violence.
The study authors say “In addition to being a breach of human rights, the high occurrence of partner violence and its associations with poor health — including implied costs in terms of health expenditures and human suffering — highlight the urgent need to address partner violence in national and global health-sector policies and programs”

In an associated commentary, Riyadh K.Lafta of the Mustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad, Iraq said that precise and easy data on violence against women was needed to strengthen these efforts would also help the policy makers and it would also it supple to address the problem.

But the sad fact is that there are many factors, like religious and public views, target population the set up for interviews and the questionnaires are proving a hindrance in the way of data collection.

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