It is about a study that had as objective to understand and to analyze the repercussions of the conjugal violence in the process health-illness of the women. It's a result of analyses of the material gotten in an inquiry by means of interviews with women in situation of violence and denunciation, in the Police station of the Woman in the City of João Pessoa PB (Brazil). The analysis of the speeches evidenced that the conjugal violence is a recurrent and multifaceted social phenomenon that significantly influences the health of the women who lived it. Its confrontation demands from the health professionals, the recognition of this violence as a problem of collective health that crosses all the dimensions of the social relations, whose roots meet in the inequalities of gender. Such phenomenon needs to be caught, understood and fought in all the dimensions of the social reality
Violence Against Women; Gender and Health; Domestic Violence; Health-Disease Process