What a critical public health perspective can add to the analysis of healthcare responses to gender-based violence that focus on asking

Abstract

Abstract In this comment I analyze the effects of approaching gender-based violence as a public health problem, that the health system should address through ‘daring to ask’. I acknowledge the potential of the ‘daring to ask’ strategy, but I also argue that asking has effects, and that we should be aware of them.

Keywords

• Gender-based violence
• Asking
• Public health
• Health-care