1. The Invisible Burden of Violence Against Girls and Young Women in Mexico: 1990 to 2015
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Héctor Gómez-Dantés, Martha Romero Mendoza, Julio Cesar Campuzano Rincon, Rafael Lozano, Gabriela Saldívar Hernández, Quetzaliztli Manriquez Montiel, and María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza
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Male ,Adolescent ,Health Status ,Poison control ,Violence ,Suicide prevention ,Occupational safety and health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Injury prevention ,Humans ,Disabled Persons ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Child ,Mexico ,Applied Psychology ,Cause of death ,Government ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Clinical Psychology ,Years of potential life lost ,Female ,Quality-Adjusted Life Years ,Psychology ,Demography - Abstract
The increasing burden of interpersonal violence in women in Mexico is a neglected social and health problem that competes with other leading causes of premature death, disability, and health losses in young women. In this article, we focus on revealing the burden of violence in girls and young women and its implications for public policy. This study presents the subnational analysis of Mexico from the Global Burden of Disease study (1990-2015). The global study harmonized information of 195 countries and 79 risk factors. The study analyzed the deaths, years of life lost to premature death (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD), and the healthy years of life lost or disability-adjusted life year (DALY) related to violence. Nationwide, violence in young women accounts for 7% of all deaths in the 10 to 29 years age group and arises as the second most important cause of death in all age groups, except 10 to 14 years old, where it stands in the seventh position from 1990 to 2015. The health losses and social impact related to violence in young women demands firm actions by the government and society. It is urgent for health institutions to focus on the health of girls and young women because gender inequities have an enormous effect on their lives. Girls and women are nearly universally less powerful, less privileged, and have fewer opportunities than men.
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- 2018