Gender violence as a public problem in Nicaragua: structural factors and their context

Abstract

This article addresses gender violence from the perspective of public health in Nicaragua, the objective is to make an approach to the social, cultural and political-legal factors that function as structuring-normalizing mechanisms of permanence or change of violence gender as a public problem. The essay has followed a documentary observation methodology based on the review of primary and secondary sources. Aspects that link gender violence with health, culture and the role played by the State of Nicaragua are derived from the study. Important government advances are seen in the field of economic and political empowerment of Nicaraguan women and political-legal advances aimed at preventing gender violence in Nicaragua