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

• Autori principali: Esteban Ortiz-Prado (Autore), Paola Villagran (Autore), Ana Lucia Martinez-Abarca (Autore), Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo (Autore), Katherine Simbaña-Rivera (Autore), Lenin Ana M. Gómez-BarrenoDiaz (Autore), Carla E. Moyano (Autore), Vanessa Arcos-Valle (Autore), Maria Dolores Miño (Autore), Sara A. Morgan (Autore)
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• Pubblicazione: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...