Intimate partner violence among women in Spain: the impact of regional-level male unemployment and income inequality

European Journal of Public Health
Belén Sanz-BarberoY Patricia O'Campo

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a complex worldwide public health problem. There is scarce research on the independent effect on IPV exerted by structural factors such as labour and economic policies, economic inequalities and gender inequality. To analyse the association, in Spain, between contextual variables of regional unemployment and income inequality and individual women's likelihood of IPV, independently of the women's characteristics. We conducted multilevel logistic regression to analyse cross-sectional data from the 2011 Spanish Macrosurvey of Gender-based Violence which included 7898 adult women. The first level of analyses was the individual women' characteristics and the second level was the region of residence. Of the survey participants, 12.2% reported lifetime IPV. The region of residence accounted for 3.5% of the total variability in IPV prevalence. We determined a direct association between regional male long-term unemployment and IPV likelihood (P = 0.007) and between the Gini Index for the regional income inequality and IPV likelihood (P < 0.001). Women residing in a region with higher gender-based income discrimination are at a lower likelihood of IPV than those residing in a region with l...Continue Reading

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Oct 30, 2016·Gaceta sanitaria·Erika M ReddingMarta Guijarro-Garvi
Mar 10, 2018·Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health·Belén Sanz-BarberoCarmen Vives-Cases
Aug 5, 2018·International Journal of Public Health·Belén Sanz-BarberoCarmen Vives-Cases
Jun 20, 2018·European Journal of Public Health·Laura Otero-GarcíaIsabel Goicolea
Dec 12, 2018·Health Promotion International·Tania L KingAllison Milner
Nov 4, 2020·International Journal of Public Health·Nicole Geovana DiasAna Isabel Ribeiro
Dec 9, 2020·Journal of Interpersonal Violence·Belén Sanz-BarberoCarmen Vives-Cases
May 1, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Carmen Vives-CasesBelén Sanz-Barbero
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