From Spain, the WHO warns about the insufficient healthcare response for gender violence
In this context, Spain emerges as a positive benchmark at the presentation of the organisation’s new regional report.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has chosen Spain to present its regional report Care, courage, change, in which it warns about a “seriously insufficient” healthcare response to gender violence in Europe. Although 28.6% of European women have suffered from physical or sexual violence, the health systems of most of the 53 Member States are failing to offer comprehensive cover: just 43% fully integrate this problem in their policies and only 13% guarantee access to safe abortion for the victims.
Gender-based violence care in Spain
Spain has a position as a positive exception and a benchmark, being one of the 12 countries that have a comprehensive regulation framework, along with early detection protocols in primary care.
On a wider scale, the WHO has completed this diagnosis with a global report that quantifies the number of women as 840 million – almost one of every three in the world, who have been victims of violence either sexual or from their partners.
