Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Health Sociology Review

For a Special Issue on
Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls

Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+  status, and age (WHO 2021). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.

To explore this in greater detail at a global scale, the aim of this special issue is to assemble a collection of scholarly work that contributes to our understanding of minority and marginalised women’s access of healthcare following violence that have a potential to move our understanding of these issues forward theoretically, empirically, and practically. For the purpose of this special issue, violence against women and girls is defined as intimate partner violence, domestic violence, family violence and sexual violence (see Carlson, Day & Farrelly, 2021).

We welcome submissions that engage with women from Indigenous cultures, women and girls from the global South, women and girls living with disabilities as well as women from culturally and linguistically diverse and LGBTIQA+ communities. Contributions from various disciplines are welcome including health sociology, public health, human rights and criminology.

Potential areas for consideration include but are not limited to:

• The role of the health care system in the prevention from violence against women and girls
• Advancement of strategies, programs and interventions that identify and respond to violence against women and girls in various contexts, including programs, policy and supports that promote healing and recovery
• The association between violence, healthcare systems and women and girls with disability (including acquired through family violence)
• 2SLGBTIQ+ communities and intimate partner violence
• Violence against women and girls and associated pathways to prison
• Decolonising research methodologies and practice innovations in violence against women and girls research
• Research methodologies and practices that creatively facilitate the participation of girls who have experienced family violence
• Global healthcare policy innovations, challenges and limitations including those targeted at particular regions

TIMELINE:

03 March 2023: Abstract Submission Deadline

30 March 2023:  Reply to Authors

30 July 2023: Paper submission for Peer Review

30 September 2023: Reviews x 2 returned to Authors

30 November 2023: Authors resubmit

20 December 2023: Reviews x 2 returned to Authors where second round review was required

01 February 2024: Authors submit final versions

20 February 2024: GE submit to EIC final versions for approval

25 February 2024: Return submissions to authors with EIC Comments for suggested revisions

30 March 2024: Authors submit final version

30 May 2024: Publication Release

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 7,500 (all inclusive – all text, tables, references, abstract, etc)

*Instructions for Authors: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rhsr20

Please email your abstract submission, by 03 March 2023, to the Guest Editors:

Michelle Fitts: [email protected]

Karen Soldatic: [email protected]westernsydney.edu.au

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