Okenwa-Emgwa Leah, von Strauss Eva
1Department of Health Sciences, The Swedish Red Cross University College, Stockholm, Sweden.
2Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Occupational Sciences, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden.
Public Health Rev. 2018 Nov 19;39:31. doi: 10.1186/s40985-018-0108-5. eCollection 2018.
Violence against women is an acknowledged public and global health problem which has adverse consequences for women's health. Education, especially higher education, has long been identified as an important arena for addressing the problem and promoting gender equality. Two measures recently put in place in the Swedish higher education have brought the role of the sector into focus. The first is the inclusion of gender equality as a measurable outcome in quality assurance in higher education. The second measure is the amendment of the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance to include mandatory knowledge of VAW in the degree programme of seven selected relevant professional groups. The potentials of both measures to positively contribute to the gender equality discourse, as well as improving capacity building for the public health workforce who encounter VAW, are discussed.
暴力侵害妇女行为是一个公认的公共卫生和全球健康问题，对妇女健康产生不利影响。教育，尤其是高等教育，长期以来一直被视为解决这一问题和促进性别平等的重要领域。瑞典高等教育最近采取的两项措施使该领域的作用成为焦点。第一项措施是将性别平等作为高等教育质量保证中的一项可衡量成果纳入其中。第二项措施是修订《瑞典高等教育条例》，将关于暴力侵害妇女行为的强制性知识纳入七个选定相关专业群体的学位课程。本文讨论了这两项措施在积极推动性别平等对话以及提高接触暴力侵害妇女行为的公共卫生工作人员的能力建设方面的潜力。
