Coercive sexual environments contribute to health disparities

Popkin, Susan

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM

Room 13/14 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Susan Popkin, PhD, Urban Institute

Author:
Robin E. Smith, MPA, The Urban Institute

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Consider how place and neighborhood influence how women and men experience and respond to domestic and sexual violence.
Have tools (scales) for measuring neighborhood environment.
Be able to think about how these tools can help describe neighborhood dynamics for better targeting of community health interventions.

Description:
Some communities develop a coercive sexual environment (CSE) where ongoing sexual harassment and domestic violence create a climate of fear of both intimate partner violence and sexual assault victimization which disadvantages residents and contributes to disparities. We discuss how to measure this neighborhood mechanism and implications for targeting community health interventions.