Research Center on Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Niassa Operational Research Unit, Provincial Health Department, Niassa Province, Lichinga, Mozambique.
Int J Health Plann Manage. 2023 Jan;38(1):265-269. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3603. Epub 2022 Nov 30.
This report revisits data used to describe the typology and the perceived impact of violence against health care workers (VHCW) at the health services of the City of Lichinga in Mozambique, based on an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out from March to May 2019. In this report we attempt to understand if our reanalysis of VHCW in Niassa can explain it as an example of gender-based violence. Our findings-particularly that women more than men reported not knowing if the health services had any policies or procedures to deal with VHCW, felt that they were not encouraged to report acts of VHCW and were more frequently threatened/violented by different sex aggressors-although not conclusive, support the need to consider gender as a dimension when conducting research on VHCW. If we do not do so, gender will continue to be an invisible and ignored dimension of intervention strategies to prevent and address VHCW.
本报告重新审视了用于描述莫桑比克利欣加市卫生服务机构中暴力侵害卫生工作者（VHCW）的类型学和感知影响的数据，这是基于 2019 年 3 月至 5 月进行的一项观察性、描述性、横断面研究。在本报告中，我们试图了解我们对尼亚萨省 VHCW 的重新分析是否可以将其解释为基于性别的暴力行为的一个例子。我们的发现——特别是女性比男性更有可能报告说不知道卫生服务机构是否有任何政策或程序来处理 VHCW，她们觉得自己没有被鼓励报告 VHCW 行为，并且更频繁地受到不同性别的攻击者的威胁/暴力——尽管没有定论，但支持在研究 VHCW 时将性别视为一个维度的必要性。如果我们不这样做，那么在制定预防和应对 VHCW 的干预策略时，性别将继续是一个看不见和被忽视的维度。
