Social determinants and intimate partner violence: a systematic review.

Abstract

Title: Social determinants and intimate partner violence: a systematic review.

Objectives: To identify socioeconomic patterns that increase gender violence and the most vulnerable demographic profiles. This work seeks to provide information for new community-intervention strategies that reduce the number of victims.

Design: Systematic Review.

Site: Comunnity Medicine.

Methods: A search was made in databases, following the PRISMA guides and collecting the results published from 2015 to 2025 which evaluate the relationship between Social Determinants of Health and Intimate Partner Violence.

Results: 15 publications were included: 3 cohort studies and 12 transversal studies, finally evaluating a 67074 population of adult europeans. Results were organized depending on each risk factor examined.

Conclusions: Gender violence is a transversal issue to every European country where Social Determinants of Health play a fundamental role. Future longitudinal research, preferably internationally-collaborative, is needed to further investigate the causes of partner violence and appropriate prevention strategies to curb it.