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Guidelines for Health Personnel to Deal with Violence Against Women (The report)

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Administrative data source
Šalis: Austria
Temos:
Violence, Health
Types of GBV:
Intimate Partner Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
The data was collected in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. The examples from the United Kingdom were published before the country's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Ensure victim protection from perpetrator
  • Plan capacity
  • Accountability
  • Contribute to other organisation database

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Address of the victim, language skills of the victim: fluent/broken/needs translator

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes
Type of relationship: 

Offender known/unknown

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

Yes

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

Two standardized forms are used by medical personnel in Austria to document cases of Violence against Women: "Untersuchungsbogen für erweiterte Verletzungsdokumentation" (form in order to document injuries following violence) and "Untersuchungsbogen für Opfer nach Sexualdelikt" (Form for Victims of sexual violence).

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information: 

Recorded immediately as hospitals/doctors are often the first and only people that victims come to (physical evidence has to be secured immediately).

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Medical personal
Used by third parties: 
Yes (partly)

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

Website

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Metadata

Organisation: 
Department of Family and Youth together with the Health Austria GmbH, The Austrian Ministry for the Economy
Sector:
Sveikata
Geographical area: 
National