Prevent Violence Against Women👩🏻 (POPH90297)Notes
Subject notes for UniMelb POPH90297
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Subject overview✅: Violence against women is a major public health and human rights issue and is highly prevalent globally. Prevention of violence against women is an important policy priority for governments around the world, as demonstrated through its specific inclusion in Sustainable Development Goals targets and increasing commitments to evidence-based prevention interventions. Students in this subject will engage with evidence about the impact of violence against women; the causes of and contributors to violence against women; theories of social change; and prevention science and frameworks. Students will be introduced to the principles underpinning intersectional analysis and the co-design of interventions, and the particular ethical and safety issues that arise when conducting research and evaluation in relation to violence against women and its prevention. This subject will be of value to students from public health as well as from many other sectors working towards the prevention of violence against women. Here are the topics on offer📚: 1. Introduction to gender, power and violence against women (VAW) 2. Terminology around VAW 3. VAW across the life course 4. Intro Defining Prevention 2022 5. Intersectionality and why it matters 6. Personal consequences of VAW (survivors story)- The WEAVERs Project 7. Consequences of violence against women 8. Theoretical paradigms for understanding VAW 9. Evidence on the drivers of VAW and linking theory to practice: Change the Story 10. Social and gender norms and VAW-opportunities and challenges 11. Men in Focus: Addressing masculinity and engaging men in prevention work 12. Preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 1 13. Prevention of Violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 2 14. What is known about effective approaches to violence-evidence from the What Works program 15. PVAW in different communities 1 ( Violence Against Older women) 16. PVAW in different communities 2 ( Family violence and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people) 17. Settings for prevention/ A settings-based approach to prevention 18. How do we know it is working? Approaches to measuring PVAW 19. Ethics and safety in prevention work and research Personal comments🎒: Violence against women is preventable and Gender equality is the key to ending violence! Violence against women is a major public health and human rights issue and is highly prevalent globally. Prevention of violence against women is an important policy priority for governments around the world, as showed through its specific inclusion in Sustainable Development Goals targets and increasing commitments to evidence-based prevention interventions. Through this subject, you will engage with evidence about the impact of violence against women; the causes of and contributors to violence against women; theories of social change; and prevention science and frameworks. You will be introduced to the principles underpinning intersectional analysis and the co-design of interventions, and the particular ethical and safety issues that arise when conducting research and evaluation in relation to violence against women and its prevention. Go on and hit the download button! I believe you are the one who will contribute great effort to prevent VAWG in the coming future❤.
UniMelb
Semester 2, 2022
96 pages
23,486 words
$29.00
Campus
UniMelb, Parkville
Member since
February 2018