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Health Inequities Related to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

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This book sets out to address the issue of health inequities experienced by IPV survivors and identify areas where social policy may be able to intervene. This involved investigating at the individual level: to what extent social position impacts IPV exposure; and to what extent women with IPV exposure are more vulnerable to social position’s impact on health. Whether the poorer health outcomes of IPV survivors are structurally produced through social policy was also examined. In particular, whether social position’s impact on IPV exposure is reflective of family policies supporting women in establishing independent households and whether the vulnerabilities to social position’s impact on health among IPV survivors are reflective of national health policies affecting access to care. This final chapter begins with a discussion of the main findings related to each of the research questions and their theoretical implications. This is followed by a brief look at the general limitations, as well as some suggestions for future research. Based on the conceptual framework, implications for welfare policy are also discussed, before closing with some final thoughts regarding the health inequities of IPV survivors.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For detailed descriptions of the hypotheses, please refer to Chaps. 7, 8, and 9.

  2. 2.

    It is acknowledged, of course, that in addition to financial costs there are a great number of barriers preventing IPV survivors from accessing the health care they need in the US (e.g., fear of judgment, issues of confidentiality, and conflicts with transportation or scheduling). However, given the prevalence of barriers associated with cost (Postmus et al. 2009; Wilson et al. 2007), this is the primary focus of the research presented in this book.

  3. 3.

    A recent exception to this is the US’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey which began in 2010 as an annual survey conducted by the CDC, NIJ, and Department of Defense (Black et al. 2011). However, the data were not publically available when analysis for this book began.

  4. 4.

    Hegemonic masculinity is a sociological understanding of the social norms men need to adhere to in order to be legitimized as men (Connell 1995).

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Larsen, M.M. (2016). Conclusion. In: Health Inequities Related to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women. Social Disparities in Health and Health Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29565-7_10

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