Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id QAA02921; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:22:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:22:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v03010d1eb4b26fb252ee@[128.148.147.28]> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:450] dv/health and lit. curricula X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: OR Daphe and others, Are you thinking of things like World Education Health and Literacy Compendium (online and in print form) [which does refer to DV] or about health lit. curricula more generally? Eastern LINCS has some good resources - we've probably seen them posted here before, but here they are again: http://easternlincs.worlded.org/lincs/health http://www.worlded.org/projects/HEAL/HEALHOME.HTM Also, I've updated some of my resources on DV at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/screen.html - Janet Isserlis >I was wondering. Have any of you included a health literacy curriculum in >your programs? Did the curriculum include anything on domestic violence? > >Daphne Greenberg >Center for the Study of Adult Literacy >Georgia State University >University Plaza >Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 >Fax: 404-651-1415 >Ph: 404-651-0400 >E-mail: alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu > >>>> Ansongreen@aol.com 01/20 8:57 PM >>> >Friends, >Today a new comprehensive report was released on domestic violence. > >The press release follows. > >The full report is available at: >http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/l11edsum.stm > >As ever, >Anson > >Study: Third of All Women Abused > >By SHEILA HOTCHKIN >.c The Associated Press > >BALTIMORE (Jan. 20) - One of every three women worldwide has been beaten, >raped or somehow mistreated, according to a sweeping new report that says >violence against women should be treated as a global health problem rather >than just a law enforcement matter. > >``I see the health care setting as an opportunity - and right now, it's an >opportunity lost,'' said co-author Lori Heise, who visited at least 20 >countries during the past decade, collecting data from 2,000 domestic >violence studies. ``It's an opportunity to perhaps prevent a health problem >from materializing.'' > >Authors of ``Ending Violence Against Women,'' released Thursday by the Johns >Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity, >say it is the first study to take a worldwide look at violence against women. > >Besides immediate physical injuries, abuse has also been linked to problem >pregnancies, substance abuse, gastrointestinal disorders and chronic pain >syndromes, perhaps due to anxiety, the study said. > >``Women who have a history of abuse are at much higher risk of having these >chronic conditions than other women,'' said Heise, the co-director of the >Center for Health and Gender Equity. > >Anywhere from 22 percent to 70 percent of the women interviewed had never >told anyone about abuse they suffered, according to the studies compiled in >the report. > >Heise also said the report included studies that, for the first time, linked >child mortality to mothers' abusive relationships. > >A Nicaraguan study concluded that children of abused women were six times >more likely than other children to die before age 5. An Indian study also >found that women who had been beaten were more likely than other women to >face miscarriages, stillbirths or infant deaths. > >Other studies linked abuse to miscarriages, premature labor and fetal >distress. > >``We don't understand what's operating there because people are just >beginning to look at it,'' Heise said. > >The report said that the health care system is the only institution that >interacts with nearly all women during their lives, giving health >professionals an ideal vantage point to identify and assist victims of abuse. > >Dr. John Nelson, a gynecologist and spokesman for the American Medical >Association, said he agreed ``unequivocally.'' > >``The bottom line is physicians and all health care workers are in a unique >position to determine if inappropriate relationships exist and intervene very >early in the game,'' Nelson said. > >Cincinnati Police Lt. Kathleen Howard, who has taught classes on domestic >violence at the police academy for more than a decade, acknowledged the >limitations of law enforcement in addressing the problem. > >``The problem is we're reactive,'' Howard said. ``Until an incident happens, >we can't go there and watch them. We can't take any action until they do >something.'' > > >Anson Green >1999/2000 NIFL Fellow >Corporate and Community Development >Northwest Vista College >3535 N. Ellison Drive >San Antonio, Texas 78251 >210-348-2398 >http://members.aol.com/ansongreen/welcome.html
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