I am a nurse and have sometimes been the only lifeline for a woman increasingly isolated and abused: GBV is a public health crisis that needs a public health response before it’s too late for her. American policies reflect this and our Canadian policies don’t. Nurses and other frontline workers will be nursing the violent fallout from the historic 2023 fire season for years to come. The 2009 “Black Saturday '' bushfires in Victoria, Australia revealed a direct linear correlation between the severity of the acreage burned and severity of GBV to follow. Violence stays elevated for years following the “heroic phase” of disaster response.
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