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The direct and indirect costs of explosive violence

BMJ, 2009
Violent conflict remains a major risk to human health and explosive weapons are an important cause of death and injury in such situations. The health consequences are devastating. Explosive weapons cause death, injury, and psychological disabilities. They also cost lives through their effects on the health system, human resources in health, water and ...
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The relationship between workplace violence, job satisfaction and turnover intention in emergency nurses.

International Emergency Nursing, 2019
BACKGROUND Emergency department personnel are exposed to high risk of workplace violence (WPV) and nurses are the main victims. Few researchers have investigated the effects of WPV on job satisfaction and turnover intention among nurses.
Na Li, Lichuan Zhang, Guangqing Xiao, Jie Chen, Q. Lu   +4 more
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Intimate Partner Violence

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006
Abstract: This review examines multiple forms of intimate partner violence, including women's use of violence, and argues for development of more complex conceptualizations of intimate partner violence. As new victims are identified, partner violence has been reconceptualized.
Maureen C, McHugh, Irene Hanson, Frieze
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Violence: Direct, Structural and Cultural

2013
Violence is any avoidable insult to basic human needs, and, more generally, to sentient life of any kind, defined as that which is capable of suffering pain an enjoy well-being. Violence lowers the real level of needs satisfaction below what is potentially possible.
Johan Galtung, Dietrich Fischer
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Screening for Partner Violence

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2004
To compare the effectiveness of a self-report checklist with a standard set of direct questions in identifying women who are experiencing domestic partner violence.Medical records were reviewed for evidence of positive partner violence for women attending the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital prenatal clinic between August and September 2002.Records (
Webster, Joan, Holt, Victoria
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RESEARCH DIRECTIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Scientific bulletin
The article analyzes domestic violence from psychological, social, and cultural perspectives. It examines trauma, social learning, dysfunctional cognitive patterns, and gender stereotypes as determinants of violent behavior. Classical and contemporary psychological approaches are comparatively discussed.
Elnara Ahmed AHMEDOVA, Fidan Madat NOVRUZOVA   +1 more
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Violence directed against educators

2015
While school safety prevention and intervention efforts have been a recent focus of research and policy, the prevalence and impact of violence against educators in schools has been largely understudied. The present study completed a critical review of the research from 1988 to 2015 on violence directed against educators in elementary, middle, and high ...
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Youth violence directed toward significant others

Journal of Adolescence, 1985
This study explored violent behavior of high school students toward their parents, using a self‐report questionnaire. The families of the students were characterized as having high, moderate, or low levels of family functioning, and these levels were correlated with the amount of violent behavior manifested by the youths.
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Research and Policy Directions in Violence: A Developmental Perspective

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995
Violence and violence-related behaviors have become important research and policy considerations in the 1990s. Both private and public institutions have assembled considerable research associated with male violence directed against children, youth, women, and other males.
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Burgeoning Directions for the Prevention of Youth Violence

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 2011
Despite focused efforts toward the prevention of youth violence within the United States, it continues to adversely affect the lives of children and families within our communities and society at large. The articles in this issue address risk and protective factors that affect violence among urban youth to inform prevention and treatment.
Cheryl Anne Boyce, W. LaVome Robinson, Maryse Richards   +2 more
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