Estrategias de prevención del femicidio en la atención primaria de la salud

Abstract

Femicide refers to the murder of women, just because they are female. In Ecuador, from January 1 to November 15, 2021, there have been 172 violent deaths of women for reasons of gender; Of these cases, 5 women were pregnant, 11 were girls and adolescents under the age of 18, and 53% were mothers. OBJECTIVE: To establish the different strategies for the prevention of femicide in primary health care. METHODOLOGY: A bibliographical research of articles, statistical information from official pages and scientific works was carried out, in databases such as PubMed, Scielo and academic Google, with a publication time of less than 5 years. CONCLUSION: Gender violence, as a background to femicide, is an important public health problem, due to the medical complications that victims of gender violence have, among these we have musculoskeletal conditions, psychological problems and the fact of not attending to medical consultations by the abused woman. In Ecuador, as a prevention strategy, the Comprehensive National System to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women has been created, which has a contingent of Institutions, to support women who are victims of gender-based violence and reduce rates of femicide.