@report {731371, title = {Measuring and responding to violence against women in Kiribati - Action on gender inequality as a social determinant of health}, year = {2013}, institution = {World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific }, abstract = {http://iris.wpro.who.int/handle/10665.1/10446 As \ in \ many \ places, \ gender \ inequality \ is \ prevalent \ in \ the \ Pacific \ island \ nation \ of \ Kiribati. \ the WHO commission on Social Determinants of Health underlined in 2008 that gender inequality \ impacts \ health \ through \ {\textquotedblleft}discriminatory \ feeding \ patterns, \ violence \ against \ women, lack of decision-making power, and unfair divisions of work, leisure, and possibilities of improving one{\textquoteright}s life,{\textquotedblright} in addition to limiting access to health care services. A significant consequence \ of \ gender \ inequality \ is \ the \ high \ level \ of \ gender-based \ violence, \ including \ sexual, emotional and physical, perpetrated by intimate partners and non-partners. three years \ after \ the \ final \ report \ of \ the \ Commission \ on \ Social \ Determinants \ of \ Health, \ WHO \ convened \ the \ World \ Conference \ on \ Social \ Determinants \ of \ Health \ in \ Rio \ de \ Janeiro, \ Brazil, in october 2011 to review progress on implementing the recommendations of the commission, draw lessons from experiences and catalyse coordinated global action. this paper was developed in the run-up to the world conference as examples of policy action aimed at tackling key determinants of health and reducing health inequities. covering the period between 2008 and 2011, the paper demonstrates that efforts to measure the extent of a problem can raise political awareness and thereby effectively trigger policy responses on key determinants of gender-based violence and, more broadly, health. Prior to 2008, health policy-makers were unaware of the prevalence of gender-based violence \ in \ Kiribati, \ as \ no \ nationally \ representative \ study \ on \ the \ problem \ had \ ever \ been \ conducted. with support from the Australian government, the United Nations Population Fund \ (UNFPA) \ and \ the \ Secretariat \ of \ the \ Pacific \ community \ (SPC), \ and \ drawing \ on \ the \ methodology \ of \ the \ WHO \ Multi-country \ Study \ on \ Women{\textquoteright}s \ Health \ and \ Domestic \ Violence, the kiribati ministry of Internal and social Affairs (MISA) conducted its first family health and support study in 2008. A committee of stakeholders was assembled to guide the research, support its planning and implementation, and provide a longitudinal sense of buy-in and ownership.}, url = {http://iris.wpro.who.int/handle/10665.1/10446} }