The term healthcare provider in this chapter is used to denote a healthcare professional within the field of medicine, nursing, or an alternate allied healthcare field. The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women defines violence against women as "any act of genderbased violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life" (United Nations Women 1994). Domestic violence can be defined as violence perpetrated by intimate partners and other family members through physical, sexual, psychological, or economic abuse (UNICEF 2000). Throughout the chapter, domestic violence and intimate partner violence will be used interchangeably.
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