Health harms and altered health and wellbeing experiences associated with different types of violence (360G-Wellcome-215870_Z_19_Z)

Violence has far-reaching impacts for people’s lives. Being subject to violence causes physical and/or psychological health and wellbeing harms that lead to some degree of health loss, functional capacity loss and/or disability and which often endure across people’s lives. The type of violence - its severity, whether it has a sexual element to it and the relationship between the victim and perpetrator will affect the scope of harms suffered and the health and wellbeing changes experienced. Research investment in violence as a public health issue over the last two decades means that there is a growing body of research about harms and altered health and wellbeing experiences associated with violence. This exploratory research project involves a systematic scoping review to identify, collate, chart and summarise the extent of our current knowledge of the harms and altered health and wellbeing experiences associated with contextually different types of violence. This new outline of the violence, health and wellbeing knowledge landscape will be shared with key stakeholder groups to shape and prioritise future directions of research and innovation to extend our knowledge so that victim/survivors receive the most appropriate care and intervention.