The Gendered Well-being Assessment: addressing trauma, complex needs & social determinants of health.
Women's Centres in the UK provide crucial support to women with complex needs, who are often excluded from statutory services, frequently acting as a service of 'last resort'. A major challenge when working with this population is the lack of a holistic, validated, and gender-responsive assessment t...
| Publicado en: | International Journal for Equity in Health Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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BioMed Central
8/15/2025
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