Contextos de especial vulnerabilidad para la violencia de género. Interseccionalidad: adaptando la respuesta a la diversidad de contextos y situaciones

Abstract

Addressing gender violence from the health system effectively, still involves addressing numerous challenges. If gender violence is suffered by women with one or more situations of personal and social vulnerability, intervention is surrounded by formidable difficulties.

In these heterogeneous situations, early detection is urgent, as well as professional support adapted to each woman with her particular context. The intersectional approach to gender violence provides useful tools for actions in these complex scenarios, full of suffering and fragility.

This article mentions the common and specific needs of the most vulnerable women. Recommendations are offered to improve the intervention to be developed from the health system — a privileged space for this — to understand and accompany these women in their diversity, with the most effective services and resources, in coordination with the rest of the social protection systems and entities.