Domestic Violence in India

Abstract

This paper is focus gender-based violence-including rape domestic violence, mutilation, murder, and sexual abuse is a profound health problem for women across the globe. Although gender violence is a significant cause of female mortality, it is a almost never seen as a public health issue. Recent world bank estimates of the global burden of disease indicate that in established market economies gender-based victimization is responsible for one out of every five healthy days of life lost to women of reproductive age. On a per capita basis, the health burden imposed by rape and domestic violence in the industrial and developing world is roughly equivalent, but because the total disease burden is so much greater in the developing world, the percentage attributable to gender-based victimization is smaller.