Acting on Violence Against Women is a Blueprint for Health: A brief on the impact of A Blueprint for Canada's National Action Plan on Violence Against Women on the health of Canadians through the lens of the social determinants of health
This paper was prepared for and published by the Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses [now Women’s Shelters Canada] with a financial contribution from the YWCA.
This brief explores the issue of violence against women through the lens of its effects on health and interactions with the social determinants of health (income and social status, education and literacy, employment and working conditions, social environments and community services, health services, housing, physical environments and geography, personal health practices and coping skills, gender, disability, race, immigration status and culture, Indigenous status, social exclusion and marginalization, social support networks, early life/healthy child development, biology/genetic endowment).
The paper argues that experience of violence and trauma is in itself a social determinant of health. It outlines an analysis of how the implementation of A Blueprint for Canada’s National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls would improve the health of Canadians.