The first studies, during the 1960s and 1970s, were associated to phenomena of family and gender violence, and was not until the 1990s that it became part of the official discourse of organisms like the PAHO and the WHO.
Los primeros estudios, en los años sesenta y setenta, se asociaron a fenómenos de violencia familiar y de género, y solo hasta la década de los noventa se instaló en el discurso oficial de organismos como la OPS y la OMS.