Systemic violence against Syrian refugee women and the myth of effective intrapersonal interventions

Bibliographic Data

ID3973026
AuthorsRola Yasmine (0000-0002-6397-8626, Minnesota Project), Catherine Moughalian (0000-0003-0254-1153, Minnesota Project)
Year2016
Volume24
Issue47
Pages27-35
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.rhm.2016.04.008
PMID27578336
OpenAlexW2417119773
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited9

Since the uprising in Syria in March 2011, over 4.3 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries. Over a million have sought refuge in Lebanon, constituting almost a quarter of the Lebanese population and becoming the largest refugee population per capita in the world. With inequitable health coverage being a longstanding problem in Lebanon, Syrian refugee women's health, and specifically their sexual and reproductive health, is disproportionately affected. An increase in gender-based violence and early marriage, a lack of access to emergency obstetric care, limited access to contraception, forced cesarean sections, and high cost of healthcare services, all contribute to poor sexual and reproductive health. In this commentary, we conceptualize violence against Syrian refugee women using the ecological model, exploring the intersections of discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, while critiquing interventions that focus solely on the intrapersonal level and ignore the role of microsystemic, exosystemic, and macrosystemic factors of negative influence. These social determinants of health supersede the individual realm of health behavior, and hinder women in taking decisions about their sexual and reproductive health

Domestic violence · Environmental health · Forced migration · Health care · Poison control · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Refugee · Reproductive health · Sexual violence · Suicide prevention · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing

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