‘It’s a challenging environment’ health worker perspectives on domestic violence presentations to emergency departments in New South Wales hospitals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Policy and programmatic solutions to the capacity gap need to be current, highly feasible for an ED environment and ongoing to account for rotating staff and the evolving nature of DFV presentations. The preparedness of EDs within public hospitals in NSW will be crucial to the success of strategic initiatives and recent historic law reforms in supporting victim-survivors and preventing DFV.
Authors
- Amanda Henry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-8922)
- Janani Shanthosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1297-2400)
- Viola Korczak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5031-4126)
- Patricia Cullen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4652-0936)
- Elizabeth Lynch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-1051)
Institutions
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (AU)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
- Tropical Population Health Unit (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-12597-w
- Primary Topic
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of New South Wales
- George Institute for Global Health