Review Article
Violence against Pregnant Women
Cervantes-Sánchez P1, Delgado-Quiñones EG2*, Castañeda-Brizuela MMC3 and Cervantes-Sánchez GC4
1Specialization Course in Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit (Unidad de Medicina Familiar) 132, Mexico
2Specialization Course in Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit (Unidad de Medicina Familiar) 178, Mexico
3Doctor of Psychology Interdisciplinary Intervention Team, Ministry of Education No.2, Jalisco
4Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital General de León, Mexico
- *Corresponding Author:
- Delgado-Quiñones EG
Specialization Course in Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit 171
Mexican Social Security Institute, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Tel: 33-36328311
E-mail: dra.ednagdq@hotmail.com
Received date: July 27, 2016; Accepted date: September 22, 2016; Published date: October 19, 2016
Citation: Cervantes-Sánchez P, Delgado-Quiñones EG, Castañeda-Brizuela MMC, Cervantes-Sánchez GC (2016) Violence against Pregnant Women. J Community Med Health Educ 6:474. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000474
Copyright: © 2016 Cervantes-Sánchez P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Violence against pregnant is a problem that occurs in all social strata, bringing both very serious physical, psychological and social for maternal-fetal binomial consequences. This phenomenon has been described worldwide in recent days between 1% and 70%; These women say they have been abused physically, sexually or psychologically. This is most prevalent in developing countries such as Nicaragua has documented prevalence above 40%. America reports that this issue represents 20% of crimes in their country, reporting prevalence during pregnancy between 1% to 20% depending on how it is evaluated. Similarly studies reported in Canada, Spain, Ukraine, Rwanda reported a prevalence of approximately 30%. In reviewing, the causes of domestic violence are: Family dysfunction, physical functional sequelae and alterations in behavior, among others, there are significant gaps between the affected and the treating institutions such as the cost of care, psychological as guilt, shame and fear; social and stigmatization, culminating this as an obstacle to timely and adequate care of this phenomenon.
