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WE have worked for more than 10 years in the US Public Health Service to clarify the patterns of violence through surveillance and research and to identify and evaluate interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of violence. It is time to be clear about what we mean by violence and why...
It is therefore essential that clinicians understand the connection between public health and medical practice in order to ensure that public health goals are met. Intimate partner violence IPV has been defined in various ways in the medical literature and includes dating violence, intimate partner ...
The public health field-workers are not physicians or nurses, but their fieldwork is vital for patient follow-up and to stop disease transmission. Workers in STD, HIV/AIDS and TB programs notify patients of their exposure to disease, arrange disease-specific testing, schedule appointments, conduct...
The reframing towards public health implies increased de- mands on the health system and health services and their ability to face violence against women as a health problem and deal with it in terms of prevention and interventions. To our knowledge, no studies on policy and law have as yet ...
1 in 3 women globally have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence, most of which perpetrated by an intimate partner. Intimate partner violence or domestic violence, the most common form of gender-based violence affects around 641 million women globally making it a major public...
This article seeks to describe the current efforts of public health nurses involved in family violence prevention while on home visits, participating in community groups, working on special projects, and developing innovative policies. Despite a dearth o
Firearm violence in the US is an unrelenting clinical, public health, societal, and political concern of major proportion. The morbidity and mortality attributed to firearms have continued to increase; have adversely and profoundly affected individuals, families, and communities; and have exceedingly ...
This survey study describes individuals’ concerns regarding violence in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, experiences of