Violence in Terms of Gender Equality: A Qualitative Study on Pre-Hospital Emergency Health Care Workers
Project no. 21653 · Status: Kapanmış · 2020
Summary
Violence is recognized as one of the most important social problems in the world. Gender-based violence, seen as a global public health problem, has different aspects. Therefore, when the concept of violence is brought to the fore, limiting it in terms of physical meaning will cause a great deficiency. Because the phenomenon of violence is not only physical, but also manifests itself in psychological, sexual and economic terms. Because the phenomenon of violence is not only physical, but also manifests itself in psychological, sexual and economic terms. The reason for the physical limitation of the phenomenon of violence by the society, in other words, when it comes to violence, the first reason that physical violence comes to life in our minds is that the concept can be proved concretely. However, it can be ignored that many types of violence that remain concrete cause permanent damage to humans. In addition, it is a known fact that in societies where patriarchal values are valued, violence against women increases with the dependence of women on men. In recent years, although many different factors have been discussed as the reason for the increasing cases of violence against healthcare professionals, what is the effect of gender equality on violence emerges as an important question. In a service area such as pre-hospital emergency health care where roles and responsibilities are identified with the physical capacity of the employee, it is seen as an important issue to discuss the increasing violence against healthcare personnel in the axis of gender equality. The aim of the study is to evaluate violence in terms of gender equality through pre-hospital emergency healthcare workers. In a service area such as pre-hospital emergency health care where roles and responsibilities are identified with the physical capacity of the employee, it is seen as an important issue to discuss the increasing violence against healthcare personnel in the axis of gender equality. Keywords: violence, gender equality, pre-hospital emergency medical workers