HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS' RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

摘要

On Mar. 27,2020, the United Nations issued a statement warning that rates of widespread intimate partner violence (IPV) will increase owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including intimate partner femicides. Measures to minimize the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona-virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinforce environments that facilitate behaviours used by one person within an intimate relationship to exert power over and inflict physical, psychological or sexual harm on another.