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Published in: Health Research Policy and Systems 1/2011

Open Access 01-12-2011 | Research

One stop crisis centres: A policy analysis of the Malaysian response to intimate partner violence

Authors: Manuela Colombini, Siti Hawa Ali, Charlotte Watts, Susannah H Mayhew

Published in: Health Research Policy and Systems | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

Background

This article aims to investigate the processes, actors and other influencing factors behind the development and the national scale-up of the One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) policy and the subsequent health model for violence-response.

Methods

Methods used included policy analysis of legal, policy and regulatory framework documents, and in-depth interviews with key informants from governmental and non-governmental organisations in two States of Malaysia.

Results

The findings show that women's NGOs and health professionals were instrumental in the formulation and scaling-up of the OSCC policy. However, the subsequent breakdown of the NGO-health coalition negatively impacted on the long-term implementation of the policy, which lacked financial resources and clear policy guidance from the Ministry of Health.

Conclusion

The findings confirm that a clearly-defined partnership between NGOs and health staff can be very powerful for influencing the legal and policy environment in which health care services for intimate partner violence are developed. It is critical to gain high level support from the Ministry of Health in order to institutionalise the violence-response across the entire health care system. Without clear operational details and resources policy implementation cannot be fully ensured and taken to scale.
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Metadata
Title
One stop crisis centres: A policy analysis of the Malaysian response to intimate partner violence
Authors
Manuela Colombini
Siti Hawa Ali
Charlotte Watts
Susannah H Mayhew
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Health Research Policy and Systems / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1478-4505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-9-25

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