"Physical or sexual violence is a public health problem that affects more than one third of all women globally, according to a new report released by WHO in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council. The report represents ...
Gun violence is a public health epidemic. As Gen-Z, most of us learned how to protect ourselves during an active shooter situation while in Kindergarten learning to write our name. Some of us were exposed to gun violence in our homes or neighborhoods even earlier. Those of us who survive ...
Physicians and other health care professionals can do more. The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has ruled that attempts to prevent physicians from asking and counseling patients about guns violate the First Amendment.12As with any epidemic, prevention is important. Physicians and others sh...
The idea that guns make for a public health problem when knives, poisons or bludgeons do not is absurd. The problem is not the means but that so many people either want to die or are willing to kill other people for whatever reasons. The actual means is hardly the cause or the motive....
Violence: a challenge for public health and for all Violence is both a public health and a social problem. Although there is not only one type of violence nor a unique concept of what it means, the following... A Concha-Eastman - 《Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health》 被引量: ...
Violence is the greatest public health problem of our time, but is the only epidemic in which the health sector is not leading the response, says Gary Slutkin. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio ...
This paper briefly examines the rationale for public health involvement in solving the problem of violence. It explains the public health approach and describes the problem of violence in the US. In the US, violence among young people is currently an epidemic out of control, across most parts ...
Violence has been characterized as a "public health epidemic" in the United States. At the same time, children's witnessing of violence is frequently overlooked by law enforcement officers, families, and others at the time of a violent incident. Although mothers describe the panic and fear in ...
Sexual violence (SV) is a major public health issue in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the eastern part of the country where women have been victims of SV for many years. The objective of this study is to provide an overview of the survivor and perpetrator characteristi...
Doctors quickly praised Murthy’s advisory. The American Academy of Family Physicians, for example, has considered gun violence a public health epidemic for over a decade. “Family physicians have long understood, and have seen first hand, the devastating impact firearm violence has ...