Domestic violence amid COVID-19

Ashri Anurudran; Leah Yared; Cameron Comrie; Katherine Harrison; Thomas Burke

doi:10.1002/ijgo.13247

Domestic violence amid COVID-19

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2020 Aug;150(2):255-256. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.13247. Epub 2020 Jun 15.

Authors

Ashri Anurudran¹, Leah Yared², Cameron Comrie³, Katherine Harrison², Thomas Burke^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Global Health Laboratory, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

This manuscript highlights the risk that shelter‐in‐place instructions during COVID‐19 places on victims of domestic violence and serves as a call‐to‐action to address this crisis.

Keywords: COVID-19; Domestic violence; Violence against women; Women’s health.