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The 2024 forest fire season is upon us, and few are thinking about the ongoing fallout from the 2023 fire season. As of last September, fires had torched a staggering 16.5 million hectares of land. But beyond the land damaged, disasters also represent the “perfect storm” for gendered psychological, sexual, and physical violence in the private sphere to remain hidden. According to a 2018 Statistics Canada report, a Canadian woman is killed by an intimate partner every six days.
Nurses see first-hand how abused women tend to have higher rates of physical ailments, and apparent somatization of related stressors: insomnia, sexual health concerns, gastrointestinal disorders, depression and anxiety, pregnancy complications, chronic pain, and a corroded sense of self-esteem. Even “low-severity” control, emotional abuse, and deliberate isolation can rival the overall health consequences of high intensity intermittent violence.
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