PLOS Global Public Health
Physiotherapists are underutilised in health-sector responses to gender-based violence: A cross-sectional survey of preparedness across Spanish-speaking countries
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major global public health and human rights issue with wide-ranging physical and mental health consequences. Physiotherapists frequently work with populations and conditions plausibly linked to violence exposure, yet little is known about their preparedness to identify and respond to GBV in Spanish-speaking contexts. We conducted a cross-sectional online convenience survey of Spanish-speaking physiotherapists from Latin America and Spain using the Spanish-language Physician Readines …