Intimate partner violence against immigrant women is at epidemic proportions, but research has only recently begun to address the concern. A review of legal, medical, and social science literature reveals little data, that which exist demonstrate women's cultures, contexts, legal status (a) increase vulnerability for abuse, (b) are used by batterers control abuse women, (c) create barriers seeking receiving help. Data also reveal culture context offer resiliency factors through programs...

Prior studies have found that women in academic medicine do not advance or remain their careers parity with men. The authors examined a cohort of faculty from the 1995 National Faculty Survey to identify predictors advancement, retention, and leadership for faculty.The followed 1,273 at 24 medical schools continental United States 17 years faculty. Schools were balanced public private status four Association American Medical Colleges geographic regions. used regression models adjust...

Objective To estimate (1) lifetime prevalence of physical and sexual victimisation from husbands among a national sample Bangladeshi women, (2) associations unwanted pregnancy experiences husband violence, (3) miscarriage, induced abortion, fetal death/stillbirth such victimisation. Design Cross‐sectional, nationally representative study utilizing matched husband‐wife data the 2004 MEASURE Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey. Setting Bangladesh. Population Married women ages 13–40 years old...

Background: Women have entered academic medicine in significant numbers for 4 decades and now comprise 20% of full-time faculty. Despite this, women not reached senior positions parity with men. We sought to explore the gender climate as perceived by representatives Association American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Medicine Science (GWIMS) Diversity Inclusion (GDI). Methods: conducted a qualitative analysis semistructured telephone interviews GWIMS GDI other leaders at 24 randomly...

<b>Objective</b> To assess associations between maternal child marriage (marriage before age 18) and morbidity mortality of infants children under 5 in India. <b>Design </b>Cross-sectional analyses nationally representative household sample. Generalised estimating equation models constructed to associations. Adjusted included demographics body mass index as covariates. <b>Setting </b>India. <b>Population</b> Women aged 15-49 years (n=124 385); data collected 2005-6 through National Family...

Global data indicate higher COVID-19 case fatality rates among men than women. Most countries with available a male to female ratio 1·0, ranging up 3·5 in some cases (appendix).1The Sex, Gender, and ProjectThe COVID-10 sex-disaggregated tracker.https://globalhealth5050.org/covid19/Date accessed: September 18, 2020Google Scholar However, the rate is women few countries, such as India, which one of worst-affected countries. As Sept 30, 2020, India had more 6·4 million recorded cases.2Johns...

Cross-sectional studies have demonstrated gender differences in salaries within academic medicine. No research has assessed longitudinal compensation patterns. This study sought to assess patterns by compensation, and understand factors associated with these a cohort.A 17-year follow-up of the National Faculty Survey was conducted random sample faculty from 24 U.S. medical schools. Participants employed full-time at initial time periods completed survey. Annual pretax during year 2012-2013...

To assess the annual prevalence of physical violence from dating partners among a representative sample sexually experienced adolescent girls attending US public and private high schools, as well sexual risk behaviors pregnancy this population.Female students (9th through 12th grade) (N = 6864) participating in 2001 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey completed measures during previous year, assessments health behaviors. Annual rates were estimated for (n 3085) inexperienced girls. Multiple...

We assessed the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and sexual risk behaviors fatherhood (having fathered children) among young men.Sexually active men aged 18 to 35 years who visited an urban community health center reported having intercourse with a steady female during past 3 months (N = 283) completed brief self-administered survey about behaviors, IPV perpetration, demographics. conducted logistic regression analyses adjusted for demographics assess...

Sex trafficking of girls and women is widespread across South Asia recognized as both a violent gender-based crime major human rights violation. Inadequate empirical data exist to characterize this phenomenon its related health consequences, such immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.To determine the prevalence HIV infection among repatriated sex-trafficked Nepalese identify trafficking-related predictors infection.Medical case records 287 reporting being trafficked from Nepal for sexual...

Context and Objective: Female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) consistently demonstrate elevated sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevalence. IPV is thought to function indirectly as a marker abusive men's infection and/or directly via facilitating transmission wives. The present examination utilizes nationally representative sample married Indian couples test these mechanisms determine whether (1) husbands higher HIV prevalence compared with nonabusive (2) the risk wives' based...

This study was designed to assess associations between national rates of girl child marriage and HIV maternal health (MCH) concerns, using indicator data from 2009 United Nations reports. Current analyses were limited the N = 97 nations (of 188 nations) for which available. Regression adjusted development world region demonstrate that with higher are significantly more likely contend infant mortality nonutilization services, but not HIV.