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Promoting Prevention, Targeting Teens: An Emerging Agenda to Reduce Domestic Violence [PDF]

, 2003
Reviews the history of efforts to respond to domestic violence in the U.S., and defines new strategies -- targeting teens, young parents and their children, and perpetrators -- that place greater emphasis on ...
Ann Rosewater
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Recurrent violent injury: magnitude, risk factors, and opportunities for intervention from a statewide analysis. [PDF]

, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Although preventing recurrent violent injury is an important component of a public health approach to interpersonal violence and a common focus of violence intervention programs, the true incidence of recurrent violent injury is unknown ...
Crandall, Marie L., Delgado, M. Kit, Ebler, David J., Kaufman, Elinore, Rising, MD, MS, Kristin L., Wiebe, Douglas J.   +5 more
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Changes in prevalence of violence and risk factors for violence and HIV among children and young people in Kenya: a comparison of the 2010 and 2019 Kenya Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Summary: Background: Previous research has shown a high prevalence of violence among young people in Kenya. Violence is a known risk factor for HIV acquisition and these two public health issues could be viewed as a syndemic.
Francis B Annor, PhD, Laura F Chiang, MA, Patricia R Oluoch, PhD, Vivienne Mang'oli, BA, Marygorret Mogaka, MA, Mary Mwangi, PhD, Anne Ngunjiri, MPH, Francis Obare, PhD, Thomas Achia, PhD, Pragna Patel, MD, Greta M Massetti, PhD, Linda L Dahlberg, PhD, Thomas R Simon, PhD, James A Mercy, PhD   +13 more
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Prevention of family violence

Academic Medicine, 1995
Physicians must learn to recognize the victims of family violence among their patients and must then work to prevent such abuse. To help provide information that can help physicians understand and prevent family violence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is involved in gathering data that will enable scientists (1) to see the ...
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Poised for Prevention: Advancing Promising Approaches to Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence [PDF]

, 2007
Includes a discussion of primary prevention of partner violence, promising approaches to environmental/norms change, an examination of primary prevention within immigrant communities, and recommended actions and immediate next ...
Larry Cohen, Lisa Fujie Parks, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz   +2 more
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Evaluation of a Cape Town Safety Intervention as a Model for Good Practice: A Partnership between Researchers, Community and Implementing Agency [PDF]

, 2015
VPUU has a wealth of experience to share and is engaged with broader national and international policymakers and implementing agencies. Researchers are grappling with the difficulty of providing a rigorous project evaluation for these collaborations ...
Jakub Galuszka, Melikaya Ntshingwa, Richard Matzopoulos, Tali Cassidy   +3 more
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Purchaser, firearm, and retailer characteristics associated with crime gun recovery: a longitudinal analysis of firearms sold in California from 1996 to 2021

Injury Epidemiology
Background Firearm violence is a major cause of death and injury in the United States. Tracking the movement of firearms from legal purchase to use in crimes can help inform prevention of firearm injuries and deaths. The last state-wide studies analyzing
Sonia L. Robinson, Christopher D. McCort, Colette Smirniotis, Garen J. Wintemute, Hannah S. Laqueur   +4 more
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Commentary - Adapting and retesting evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs: a case study in Canada

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2015
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Christopher Mikton
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Economic abuse and its associations with symptoms of common mental disorders among women in a cross-sectional survey in informal settlements in Mumbai, India

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Domestic violence takes a range of interconnected forms, of which economic abuse is common, but less studied than others. We examine the prevalence of economic abuse, its determinants, and its association with symptoms of depression, anxiety ...
Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, Lu Gram, Apoorwa Deepak Gupta, Muthusamy Sivakami, David Osrin   +5 more
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The science of violence prevention

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Twenty years after Rodrigo Guerrero-Velasco treated violence like a disease, using epidemiology to find the causes, his approach to violence prevention has been taken up across the Americas. He talks to Alyssa Greenhouse.
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