FRONTIERS PROJECT
Expanding Use of a Program to Train Health Care Professionals on Addressing Domestic Violence

This project (formally titled "Expanding the Use of a Training Module on Identification and Management of Domestic Violence Among Patients of Reproductive Health Care Professionals") was designed to disseminate, expand use, and promote institutionalization of a program to train health care professionals to address domestic violence. The program was developed and implemented by the Mexican Institute for Research on the Family and Population (IMIFAP), a nongovernmental organization, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and FRONTIERS. During the course of the project, 450 health care professionals based in 14 cities in nine states of Mexico and 21 health providers in Lima, Peru, attended a series of workshops to sensitize health professionals to clinical and legal aspects of domestic violence issues, and to develop strategies for recognizing, managing, or referring cases of domestic violence.

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Location

Mexico, Peru

Duration

December 1998–March 1999

Population Council researcher

Ricardo Vernon

(For more information about this study, please contact frontiers@popcouncil.org.)

Non-Council collaborators

Mexican Institute for Research on the Family and Population (Instituto Mexicano de Investigación de Familia y Población or IMIFAP)

Ministry of Health

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type. 

1999
Pick, Susan and Lydia Miranda. “Mexico: Training health providers on domestic violence,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 686 KB)

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See Also

• Mexico

• Peru

• Gender-based Violence

• FRONTIERS Mexico

• FRONTIERS Violence Against Women

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