Violence
can be defined as the fearful activities to harm own self or others by physical
force. Violence creates a life time health problem of one's life. It can be in
the form of physical, psychological and sexual violence. Violence is defined by
the World Health Organization in the WRVH as “the intentional use of physical
force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or
against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood
of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal-development or
deprivation.” Violence has been the major threatening problem in the world
which ultimately results in death, disability, psychologically imbalanced and
injuries.
Violence
is increasing day by day in the present world since many decades ago. Mostly
girls and women have to be the strong victim of the violence since birth to old
age. They have to bear any sorts of violence in their life time. The prenatal
sex selection is done for female infanticide as baby girls are taken as
economic disasters. If born, they have to be deprived from nutritious food
resulting in malnutrition and they are prohibited from health care services. As
they grow, they do not seem to be healthy. In adolescent period, parents marry
them in very early age and have to be pregnant early to bear child resulting in
death of the mother. They have to suffer a lot from forced sex from their
husband and be the victim of STDs like HIV/AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea and
hepatitis. They have to be victim of rape cases also at different ages which
deteriorate their health. They are undernourished as they suffer from different
diseases and are weak. In reproductive
age (14-49) also; they bear physical violence like biting, shouting and
slapping from their family members. The health workers in the health
institutions also exploit women sexually and psychologically. After then women
do not desire to take health services. They have to bear unplanned pregnancy
resulting in economic burden in the family. Girl child are killed by sex
selection process and adopt different methods of abortion. During the delivery
of the baby, they have many complications and are not taken to the health
institutions and may finally die. Some mothers have to suffer from the
psychotic depression too. As women are sexually harassed and exploited, they
suffer from STDs in reproductive age and are deprived of nutritious foods
mainly containing iron resulting in anemia. Later in old age, women have to
suffer from various diseases like osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, breast
cancer, cervical cancer and arthritis. If a baby girl is fully nourished,
educated and well behaved in a family, she would have given birth to a healthy
baby in appropriate age and educated husband as well as family members
would treat very well throughout the
life.
Violence,
as a global problem in the world plays a vital role in deteriorating the health
of the girl's life. Lack of education, lack of violence screening, strong need
of son in patriarchal societies, lack of women empowerment, lack of surveys and
research are some of the causes for the violence and gradually resulting in
creating health problems.
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