Female homicides and femicides in Ecuador: a nationwide ecological analysis from 2001 to 2017

• Main Authors: Esteban Ortiz-Prado (Author), Paola Villagran (Author), Ana Lucia Martinez-Abarca (Author), Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo (Author), Katherine Simbaña-Rivera (Author), Lenin Ana M. Gómez-BarrenoDiaz (Author), Carla E. Moyano (Author), Vanessa Arcos-Valle (Author), Maria Dolores Miño (Author), Sara A. Morgan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Gender-based violence is a major public health concern arising from the structural discrimination of women and girls. In 2014, Ecuador criminalized acts of femicide in response to a growing crisis across the region. As no epidemiological studies on the state of female homicides a...