Abstract

CAMACARO CUEVAS, Marbella; NARANJO, María  and  ABOUORM SAAB, Karina. Understanding social ethics of gender violence on primary care personal: Aragua state. Venezuela. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.25-32. ISSN 1690-3293.

Gender violence is a priority issue of human rights of women and Venezuela , he has placed on its agenda with the enactment of the Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence (2007 ) . In order to analyze the level of socioethical attention on gender violence that has medical staff of primary care network Municipality Girardot understanding , a descriptive , cross-sectional study with a field design. The population was medical staff working in this municipality , which was selected through a non probabilistic intentional sampling 56 people , for data collection was applied an instrument with open and closed questions , following validation and pilot. Results show that 64.24 % of the / as medical / as respondents not having attended any victims of gender violence; 62.50 % consider attending victims may not report cases of violence by not witness it; 30.35% state that drugs and alcohol are factors that cause aggressive behavior in men ; with mental and psychosocial disorders whose behavior prevails in 55,34 % and 58, 92 % believe that the first signs of aggression in the couple start in dating. These results suggest that gender violence is not identified as a public health problem and that there is ignorance of the legal norms that justify the non reporting of the incident by not having witnessed and still prevalent conception of gender violence crossed by myths and cultural assumptions.

Keywords : Domestic violence; violence against women; medically qualified health personnel.

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