VAWG as a public health emergency

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I heard violence against women and girls referred to as a public health emergency.

Of course it is.

It should be treated as such, same way as any other public health emergency.
I mean... the financial cost alone without the personal cost. The mind boggles.

Wondering what other people think? X

It IS a public health emergency. Correction

All violence is a public healthy emergency. Not just VAWG

But surely sex based violence and by that I mean all sexual harassment whether at work or at home, all domestic abuse all childhood sexual abuse and all murdered and raped women plus 'routine' harassment means that female injury whether psychological or physical outweighs male injury.

Plus the damage caused by the sex trade inequalities at work etc etc
I mean this is half the population

It’s hard to see who is worse off. The government should focus on helping everyone that is a victim of violence

Inequality is different to violence and is nothing to do with public health

NAM too eh?

I don’t think helping the victims should be the focus. Prevention is more important.

And that means helping boys and young men as well.

We need serious work about consent and autonomy with children, starting young. When kids realise they don’t get to tell other people what to do, they’ll be happier. Control yourself, not other people. Mind, our school ethos would need to change.

Where have you heard that? I've seen it referred to as a national emergency but not a public health emergency.

Never mentioned that

Someone suggested it. If it was a public health emergency I imagine it would get treated much more urgently. And would've been historically.

I think it's a good idea.

It would also focus the mind much more on prevention surely. I mean that's the point. Also there has to be much more men policing other men. A much bigger men's movement. There's white ribbon and the heroic David challen but precious little else.

The police is having struggles keeping officers as it is now, recruiting more officers would be a nightmare

Stricter punishments are needed

Some of the biggest inequalities are in health and health outcomes for women, just look at the stats for heart attacks and how often women are ignored and not treated even in a&e, or the dismissal of women's pain and the medical violence that we suffer. Then think about the way that the NHS is prioritising the wants of men to the detriment of women and the physical and mental harm caused by this can you really say that inequality has nothing to do with public health or violence?

Exactly...if you include that as well....

I'm tired of men handwringing and worrying about their wives daughters sisters etc...

Good men have to start taking the lead with boys too. It has to be root and branch. I've ben a feminist all my life but I'm sooo tired.

Maybe if men were made aware of the economic consequences of VAWG, they’d be motivated to take action. Money talks.

I keep posting this, but domestic violence costs the UK an estimated £66 billion every year..
www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-economic-and-social-costs-of-domestic-abuse

''Domestic violence has overtaken gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia as the leading cause of foetal death.''
safelives.org.uk/research-policy/health/idvas-in-maternity-units/

Doubt it. Financial abuse is very common in DV. Some men won't allow their wives to work or won't agree to pay towards childcare so they can get back to work or work longer hours.

Right but all the men who don’t abuse their families but don’t step in to protect anyone else or call men out, may be stimulated to intervene if they realised what a tax burden those men create.

Its money that could be put to better use imo.

I agree that men should step in when they hear misogynist jokes or see their friends sexually harass or assault a woman.

However domestic violence is often hidden and it's unlikely most men would know their friends were doing it.

Hope would one begin to work out the cost?

I’m not sure about how hidden it really is. I think that attitudes leading to abuse are often accepted when they should be challenged.

It’s attitudes that need to change after all. Behaviour will follow.