Impact of Brazilian Public Policies on Violence against Women: Integrative Review

Objective: To identify in the literature review public policies and the impact on violence against women in the period of 12 years of approval of the Maria da Penha Law.

Method: This is a literature review study that sought in secondary sources through bibliographic survey in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Medical literature Analysis and Retrieval online (Medline), Nursing Database (BDENF) and Scientific Electronic Library Online(SciELO), which has been published on the impact that Brazilian Public Policies violence against women in the 12-year period of the Maria da Penha Law.

Result: The reading of the 16,000 titles was found after reading, and 59 articles were tracked, and 47 scientific publications were excluded that did not address the theme. Sample was 12 publications that when read and analyzed in the integral, added a final sample of 7 articles related to the impact of public policies to reduce violence against women, in which the 7 articles were selected from the LILACS database, Scielo, Medline, Bdenf.

Considerations: The laws made it possible to gain in the protection of women’s rights, favoring increased complaints, but the achievements do not suffocate the sufficiency conscious to curb aggressions. The reflection that is made of this scenario is that of a fragility in relation to the quality of management in the care of women in situations of violence. The political changes have contributed to the problem taking visibility but still needs solidified advances for better results on prevention and combat affecting.

Keywords: Public policies; Violence; Women; Laws