Creating Safe And Healthy Neighborhoods With Place-Based Violence Interventions

Vacant Properties and Violence in Neighborhoods.

OBJECTIVES Violence remains a significant public health issue in the United States. To determine if urban vacant properties were associated with an increased risk of assaultive violence and if this association was modified by important neighborhood institutions (e.g., schools, parks/playgrounds, police stations, and alcohol outlets). METHODS Longitudinal ecologic study of all 1816 block group...

Managing Workplace Violence With Evidence-Based Interventions: A Literature Review.

Workplace violence in health care settings is an occupational issue concerning nurses and other health care professionals. Patient aggression against nurses is often the most common form of violence in clinical settings, occurring in emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric settings, and nursing homes. Physical and verbal assaults are the major forms of workplace violence encountered by nur...

Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.

Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional associa...

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods: Final Project Report

Creating a safe place for pediatric care: A no hit zone.

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to create and implement a program, Kosair Children's Hospital's No Hit Zone, which trains health care workers in de-escalation techniques to address parental disruptive behaviors and physical discipline of children commonly encountered in the hospital environment. METHODS The Child Abuse Task Force, a multidisciplinary group, along with key hospital administrators deve...