Una experiencia de defensa de la salud en violencia contra las mujeres

the development of political responses to a problem needs for its construction as a social problem of a continuous epidemiological surveillance system available for the affected public and key decision makers. a women's health advocacy net based initiative was launched in november 2003. every month the epidemic index of deaths (ratio of deaths in that month and median of deaths occurring the previous 5 years) due to intimate partner violence (ipv) is published in a section called ？violence alert？ of e-leusis.net a women's web page. the objective was giving visibility to information contributing to shape the problem. from a population perspective. the initiative was introduced at the beginning to journalists and every month a press release with the index results and a comment on it is circulated. more than half of the months studied (january 2003-december 2004) were epidemic (epidemic indexb ≥ 1.25). ？violence alert？ has received 2330 visits since then, an average of 65 visits per week. the page attracted media coverage from radio, tv and newspapers.