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Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015

Objective: To understand the main types of risk of violence against women in Taiwan. Materials and methods: This study used the outpatient, emergency, and hospitalization data of 2 million people in the National Health Insurance sample from 2000 to 2015. The International Classification of Diseases,...

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Autores principales: Chwo, Miao-Ju, Huang, Shi-Hao, Huang, Yao-Ching, Lin, Iau-Jin, Yu, Chia-Peng, Chung, Chi-Hsiang, Chien, Wu-Chien, Sun, Chien-An, Wu, Gwo-Jang
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8949986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063473
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author Chwo, Miao-Ju
Huang, Shi-Hao
Huang, Yao-Ching
Lin, Iau-Jin
Yu, Chia-Peng
Chung, Chi-Hsiang
Chien, Wu-Chien
Sun, Chien-An
Wu, Gwo-Jang
author_facet Chwo, Miao-Ju
Huang, Shi-Hao
Huang, Yao-Ching
Lin, Iau-Jin
Yu, Chia-Peng
Chung, Chi-Hsiang
Chien, Wu-Chien
Sun, Chien-An
Wu, Gwo-Jang
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description Objective: To understand the main types of risk of violence against women in Taiwan. Materials and methods: This study used the outpatient, emergency, and hospitalization data of 2 million people in the National Health Insurance sample from 2000 to 2015. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnostic N-codes 995.5 (child abuse) and 995.8 (adult abuse) or E-codes E960–E969 (homicide and intentional injury by others) were defined as the case study for this study, and the risks of first violent injury for boys and girls (0–17 years old), adults (18–64 years old), and elders (over 65 years old) were analyzed. Logistic regression analysis was used for risk comparison. A p value of <0.05 was considered significant. Results: The proportion of women (12–17.9 years old) who were sexually assaulted was 2.71 times that of women under the age of 12, and the risk of sexual assault for girls and adult women was 100 times that of men. Girls who were insured as labor insurance, farmers, members of water conservancy and fishery associations, low-income households, and community insured population (public insurance as the reference group) were significantly more likely to seek medical treatment from sexual assault than adult women. Among them, the risk was greatest for girls from low-income households (odds ratio = 10.74). Conclusion: Women are at higher risk of sexual assault than men regardless of whether they are children or adults, and the highest risk is for women in senior high schools, especially for girls from low-income households. Therefore, the protection of women’s personal autonomy is the direction that the government and people from all walks of life need to continue to strive for. Especially for high school students from low-income households, protection must be strengthened through education, social work, and police administration.
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spelling pubmed-89499862022-03-26 Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015 Chwo, Miao-Ju Huang, Shi-Hao Huang, Yao-Ching Lin, Iau-Jin Yu, Chia-Peng Chung, Chi-Hsiang Chien, Wu-Chien Sun, Chien-An Wu, Gwo-Jang Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Objective: To understand the main types of risk of violence against women in Taiwan. Materials and methods: This study used the outpatient, emergency, and hospitalization data of 2 million people in the National Health Insurance sample from 2000 to 2015. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnostic N-codes 995.5 (child abuse) and 995.8 (adult abuse) or E-codes E960–E969 (homicide and intentional injury by others) were defined as the case study for this study, and the risks of first violent injury for boys and girls (0–17 years old), adults (18–64 years old), and elders (over 65 years old) were analyzed. Logistic regression analysis was used for risk comparison. A p value of <0.05 was considered significant. Results: The proportion of women (12–17.9 years old) who were sexually assaulted was 2.71 times that of women under the age of 12, and the risk of sexual assault for girls and adult women was 100 times that of men. Girls who were insured as labor insurance, farmers, members of water conservancy and fishery associations, low-income households, and community insured population (public insurance as the reference group) were significantly more likely to seek medical treatment from sexual assault than adult women. Among them, the risk was greatest for girls from low-income households (odds ratio = 10.74). Conclusion: Women are at higher risk of sexual assault than men regardless of whether they are children or adults, and the highest risk is for women in senior high schools, especially for girls from low-income households. Therefore, the protection of women’s personal autonomy is the direction that the government and people from all walks of life need to continue to strive for. Especially for high school students from low-income households, protection must be strengthened through education, social work, and police administration. MDPI 2022-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8949986/ /pubmed/35329159 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063473 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Chwo, Miao-Ju
Huang, Shi-Hao
Huang, Yao-Ching
Lin, Iau-Jin
Yu, Chia-Peng
Chung, Chi-Hsiang
Chien, Wu-Chien
Sun, Chien-An
Wu, Gwo-Jang
Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title_full Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title_fullStr Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title_full_unstemmed Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title_short Sexual Assault Is the Biggest Risk Factor for Violence against Women in Taiwan—A Nationwide Population Cohort Study from 2000 to 2015
title_sort sexual assault is the biggest risk factor for violence against women in taiwan—a nationwide population cohort study from 2000 to 2015
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8949986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063473
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