RESTREPO, Elizabeth García; CARDONA, Doris    OTALVARO, Andrés Felipe Tirado. Violence against women in Colombia, a challenge for public health in regard to its prevention, care and elimination. []. , 12, 1, pp.167-175.   06--2021. ISSN 2145-7719.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesder.12.1.9.

Public health as a field of knowledge, practice, and research has much to contribute to the issue of violence against women, recognized as a global and local problem relatively recently; It can contribute to make evident the magnitude of the problem and its consequences, help to elucidate its causes, design public policies for prevention and timely intervention; knowledge management; the promotion of health and the integration of the knowledge of organizations and communities, as a means for their transformation. In this essay from a public health perspective, a tour of this problem in Colombia is made, showing some of these scopes, challenges and opportunities.

: violence against women; battered women; gender-based violence; public health; Colombia.

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