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abstract: 'Background On average, intimate partner violence affects nearly one in
three women worldwide within their lifetime. But the distribution of
partner violence is highly uneven, with a prevalence of less than 4\% in
the past 12 months in many high-income countries compared with at least
40\% in some low-income settings. Little is known about the factors that
drive the geographical distribution of partner violence or how
macro-level factors might combine with individual-level factors to
affect individual women''s risk of intimate partner violence. We aimed to
assess the role that women''s status and other gender-related factors
might have in defining levels of partner violence among settings.
Methods We compiled data for the 12 month prevalence of partner violence
from 66 surveys (88 survey years) from 44 countries, representing 481
205 women between Jan 1, 2000, and Apr 17, 2013. Only surveys with
comparable questions and state-of-the-art methods to ensure safety and
encourage violence disclosure were used. With linear and quantile
regression, we examined associations between macro-level measures of
socioeconomic development, women''s status, gender inequality, and
gender-related norms and the prevalence of current partner violence at a
population level. Multilevel modelling and tests for interaction were
used to explore whether and how macro-level factors affect
individual-level risk. The outcome for this analysis was the population
prevalence of current partner violence, defined as the percentage of
ever-partnered women (excluding widows without a current partner), aged
from 15 years to 49 years who were victims of at least one act of
physical or sexual violence within the past 12 months.
Findings Gender-related factors at the national and subnational level
help to predict the population prevalence of physical and sexual partner
violence within the past 12 months. Especially predictive of the
geographical distribution of partner violence are norms related to male
authority over female behaviour (0.102, p<0.0001), norms justifying wife
beating (0.263, p<0.0001), and the extent to which law and practice
disadvantage women compared with men in access to land, property, and
other productive resources (0.271, p<0.0001). The strong negative
association between current partner violence and gross domestic product
(GDP) per person (-0.055, p=0.0009) becomes non-significant in the
presence of norm-related measures (-0.015, p=0.472), suggesting that GDP
per person is a marker for social transformations that accompany
economic growth and is unlikely to be causally related to levels of
partner violence. We document several cross-level effects, including
that a girl''s education is more strongly associated with reduced risk of
partner violence in countries where wife abuse is normative than where
it is not. Likewise, partner violence is less prevalent in countries
with a high proportion of women in the formal work force, but working
for cash increases a woman''s risk in countries where few women work.
Interpretation Our findings suggest that policy makers could reduce
violence by eliminating gender bias in ownership rights and addressing
norms that justify wife beating and male control of female behaviour.
Prevention planners should place greater emphasis on policy reforms at
the macro-level and take cross-level effects into account when designing
interventions. Copyright (C) Heise et al. Open access article published
under the terms of CC BY'
affiliation: 'Heise, LL (Corresponding Author), London Sch Hyg \& Trop Med, Dept Global
Hlth \& Dev, London WC1H 9SH, England.
Heise, Lori L., London Sch Hyg \& Trop Med, Dept Global Hlth \& Dev, London WC1H
9SH, England.
Kotsadam, Andreas, Univ Oslo, Dept Econ, Oslo, Norway.'
author: Heise, Lori L. and Kotsadam, Andreas
author-email: lori.heise@lshtm.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Heise
given: Lori L.
- family: Kotsadam
given: Andreas
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00013-3
esi-highly-cited-paper: Y
esi-hot-paper: N
files: []
issn: 2214-109X
journal: LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH
keywords-plus: 'GENDER INEQUALITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DETERMINANTS; AGGRESSION;
EQUALITY; INDIA'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '36'
pages: E332-E340
papis_id: 994d241ec86838722fd90bb93878a3bf
ref: Heise2015crossnationalmultile
researcherid-numbers: Heise, LORI/AAI-6251-2020
times-cited: '307'
title: 'Cross-national and multilevel correlates of partner violence: an analysis
of data from population-based surveys'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000354827300014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '82'
volume: '3'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2015'