What the Health and Mental Health Care Systems Can Do To Make a Difference

• Conduct public health campaigns.
• Educate all health care providers about violence against women.
• Create protocol and documentation guidelines for health care facilities, and disseminate widely.
• Protect victim health records.
• Ensure that mandatory reporting requirements protect the safety and health status of adult victims.
• Create incentives for providers to respond to violence against women.
• Create oversight and accreditation requirements for sexual assault and domestic violence care.
• Establish health care outcome measures.
• Dedicate increased federal, state, and local funds to improving the health and mental health care systems' responses to violence against women.